Alu Kabli Recipe – Kolkata Potato Chickpea Snack | Aloo Chana Chaat

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.

Alu Kabli

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

Aloo Kabli is a spicy and tangy fast food recipe made with boiled and cubed potatoes and boiled chickpeas, fresh lemon juice, sweet tamarind sauce and topped with chopped coriander leaves. This simple and savoury aloo chaat snacks recipe can be put together with ease.

Course Snack

Cuisine Bengali

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

Total Time 30

Servings 4

Calories 189kcal

Author Shil

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.