Alu Kabli Chaat Kolkata Style is a healthy and savoury tea time snack. A popular Bengali street food recipe, spicy aloo chana chaat made with cubed potatoes, boiled chickpeas, black salt, chopped onions, hot chilli rings, tangy tamarind sauce, a handful of coriander leaves and a dash of lime, is an explosion of flavours.
Aloo Kabli Chaat is an incredibly chatpata dish best served in sal leaf bowls and a wooden ice cream spoon to recreate the street food feel. Homemade Bengali Aloo chat is a tasty and easy way to replicate the flavours of this popular street food.
Alu Kabli Chaat Recipe:
Aloo Chaat is a savory snack sold in food carts by street vendors in India and it’s noisily relished by young and old alike. l love this simple, spicy chaat. The Kolkata style street food chana salad is so easy and flexible to prepare.
- To make Bengali Aloo Kabli Chaat, first soak the chickpeas overnight, or for a minimum of 8 hours. Then, boil the chickpeas, drain the water and keep aside.
- Also, boil potatoes, peel and dice them.
- Meanwhile, chop onions, green chillies and fresh coriander leaves.
- Then. in a mixing bowl, toss the cubed potatoes, onions, green chillies and boiled chickpeas.
- Then, add black salt, chilli powder and roasted cumin powder. Give everything a good mix.
- Lastly, sprinkle gondhoraj lemon juice (Gandhoraj lemon is a popular lemon variety in West Bengal. It’s very fragrant and comes with a great flavour. But, you are free to use any lemon of your choice) and combine well. Top the potato and chickpea chaat with a drizzling of sweet tamarind sauce.
- Serve tasty and nutritious Alu Kabli Chaat Kolkata style topped with coriander leaves. The zesty and spicy flavours of this yummy street food will surely delight your taste buds.
- If you are looking for more street food recipes, then do try out Buttery Pavs With Vegetable Sabji.
Aloo Chana Chaat Recipe details below:
Potato And Chickpea Chaat Kolkata
Ingredients
- Potatoes – 2 cups, boiled and chopped
- Black Chickpeas/Kala Chana – 1/2 cup, boiled
- Onions – 2 large, chopped
- Green chillies – 2, slit
- Coriander leaves – 1 ½ tbsp, chopped
- Cumin powder – 1 tsp
- Sweet tamarind sauce – 1 tbsp
- Red chilli powder – ¼ tsp
- Black salt – ½ tsp
- Lemon juice – 2 tsp
Instructions
- For this easy chaat recipe, soak Kala Chana (black chickpeas) overnight. Pressure cook till soft, drain and keep aside.
- Boil potatoes; peel and cut them into cubes.
- Finely chop onions, green chillies and coriander leaves.
- In a mixing bowl toss in the cubed potatoes, chopped onion, green chillies, coriander leaves and boiled chickpeas.
- Sprinkle black salt, red chilli powder and roasted cumin powder.
- Drizzle lemon juice and toss well.
- Serve Alu Kabli Chaat Kolkata style in sal leaf bowls with a sprinkling of coriander leaves and tamarind sauce.
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