Recipe Cooked, Photographed and Written by Praveena
PrepTime:5 mins MixTime:10 mins Cuisine:Indian
Chana (chickpeas) and Aloo (potato) chat is an Indian version of salad with a touch of Indian masala.
This, Chana Aloo Chat / Chickpeas Potato salad, is rich in Protein from the chickpeas, has Carbohydrates from the Potatoes and has essential nutrients from herbs we added. Its a perfect dish suitable for salad, as s starter, or as a snack too. Or In fact its perfect as a filling for any bread, just like we had. 🙂
I even happily make this in the mornings for my kids lunch boxes. Of course, I do get the chickpeas soaked the previous day itself. My children are very much pleased with this salad. While my hubby loved it as a filling with the flat-bread (pic below).
You can just play with the ingredients in this recipe. Ya, any salad gives such flexibility, right! Try my version of this PERFECTLY healthy salad! 🙂

Before starting to cook, don’t forget to see the Tips mentioned at the end.
I already have a post on how to soak, boil and get chickpea sprouts, link here : Sprouts
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Ingredients:
- Boiled Potatoes – 2 (medium size)
- Chick peas/ Chana / Senagalu – – 2 cups (boiled)
- Coriander/ Kothimeera – 4-5 twigs
- Mint/ Pudina – 1 fistful of leaves
- Salad Tomatoes – 12
- Onion – 1
- Ginger – 1 inch piece
- Green Chillies – 2
- Lemon Slices – 2
- Sev/ Crushed Crisps – 2 tablespoons
- Cream/ Greek Yogurt/ Plain Curd – 2 tablespoons (optional)
Ingredients for dressing:
- Tomato Sauce/Ketchup – 2 tablespoons
- Tamarind Sauce/ Sweet&Sour Sauce – 2 tablespoons
- Lemon Juice – 2 tablespoons
- Olive Oil – 2 tablespoons
- Red Chilli Powder/ Kaaram/ Paprika – ½ teaspoon
- Dried Herb Mix – ½ teaspoon
- Indian Chat Masala/ Curry Masala – ½ teaspoon
- Salt – as per taste
Special Ingredients:
- Sev/ Crushed Crisps
- Mint/ Pudina
- Coriander/ Koththimeera
- Tamarind Sauce/ Sweet & Sour Sauce
- Lemon
Step wise pics Procedure ‘Chana aloo chat / Chickpeas potato salad’:
- Firstly, get all the veggies finely chopped.
Veggies chopped for the salad - Take the boiled potatoes and gently cut them into bite size cubes.
- Take the cubed potato pieces and chickpeas into a wide mixing bowl.
- Add all the ‘Ingredients for dressing’.
- Just give a gentle mix, that the spices and sauces are well coated to the chickpeas and potatoes.
- Next, transfer all the chopped vegetables into the same bowl.
- Using 2 spoons in both the hands, very gently fold in everything.
- Top it up with the Sev/ Crushed Crisps as in pic below.
- Optionally, while serving this salad just smear some fresh cream/ plain yogurt on the top. Done!!
Chana-Aloo Chat/ Salad ready to be served
Tips:
- You can use black chickpeas (or) chickpea sprouts in this recipe.
- Adjust the salt and spice as per your taste.
- You can replace potatoes with any other vegetable or eliminate them.
- This is quite a filling salad recipe, very much suitable as a starter for any party, platter.
- Instead of dry herbs mix which I added, better to add any other fresh herbs.
- Vegans can just eliminate the cream in the recipe.
- This, Chana aloo chat / chickpeas potato salad, can be chilled in refrigerator and served, especially in summers.
- It stays good up to a week when refrigerated.
Result:
- The taste of this, Chana aloo chat / chickpeas potato salad, is tangy and sweet, while the texture is crunchy and soft.
- We had them just like a salad, part of our meal.
- And on the next day we had them as a filling, for the seeded flat bread. It was just yummilicious.


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Chana – Aloo Chat / Chickpeas – Potato Salad (Indian Version)
Ingredients
Salad Ingredients
- 2 count Potatoes (medium size) (boiled)
- 2 cups Chickpeas/Chana/Senagalu (boiled)
- 4 to 5 twigs Fresh Coriander/ Kothimeera
- 1 fistful Mint / Puthina
- 12 count Salad Tomatoes
- 1 count Onion
- 1 inch piece Ginger
- 2 count Green Chillies
- 2 count Lemon Slices
- 2 tablespoons Crushed Crisps / Sev
- 2 tablespoons Greek Yogurt/Curd / Cream (optional)
Ingredients for Dressing
- 2 tablespoon Tomato Ketchup / Sauce
- 2 tablespoon Tamarind sauce / Sweet & Sour Sauce
- 2 tablespoon Lemon Juice
- 1 tablespoon Olive Oil
- ½ teaspoon Red Chilli Powder/ Smoked Paprika
- ½ teaspoon Dry Herb mix
- ½ teaspoon Indian Chat Masala / Curry Masala
- as per taste salt
Instructions
- Firstly, get all the veggies finely chopped
- Take the boiled potatoes and gently cut them into bite size cubes.
- Now, take the cubed potato pieces and chickpeas into a wide mixing bowl and add all the ‘Ingredients for dressing’.
- Just give a gentle mix, that the spices and sauces are well coated to the chickpeas and potatoes.
- Next, transfer all the chopped vegetables into the same bowl.
- Using 2 spoons in both the hands, very gently fold in everything.
- Top it up with the Sev / Crushed Crisps.
- Optionally, while serving this salad just smear some fresh cream/ plain yogurt on the top. Done!!
Notes
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Nice recipe
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