Aloo chaat recipe – Aloo chaat is one of the most popular street foods of India and is often eaten as a Snack. There are different ways of making an aloo chaat, the one I am sharing here is a simple home style one. This is very quick to make if you have some steamed or boiled potatoes in hand.
Usually for making aloo chaat, potatoes are deep fried till crispy. But here I have roasted the boiled potatoes till golden on a tawa. However you can also deep fry them if you prefer crisp fried aloo in the chaat. You can also make a sweet potato chaat the same way, just by replacing the potatoes.
For more Chaat recipes, you can check
Sweet corn chaat
Dahi vada
Sev puri
Papdi chaat
Vada pav
Simple aloo chaat recipe
Aloo chaat recipe | How to make aloo chaat | Potato chaat recipe
Aloo chaat is a simple snack made with potatoes and chaat chutneys. It is also a popular street food which is made by deep frying the potatoes. Just to keep it healthy I have made this by boiling potatoes.
Ingredients (240 ml cup used)
Ingredients for aloo chaat
- 2 large potatoes cubed
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1 tsp garlic or ginger chopped
- 1 green chili chopped
- ½ tsp cumin powder roasted jeera powder (optional)
- Salt as needed
- 1/8 tsp chaat masala powder
- ¼ to ½ tsp red chilli powder
- 1 tbsp coriander leaves chopped
- 2 to 4 tbsps nylon sev
- 2 tbsp pomegranate seeds (replace with sweet raisins & roasted cashews)
- ½ to ¾ tsp lemon juice or sweet tamarind chutney
green chutney (1 to 2 tsps)
- ¼ to ½ cup coriander leaves
- 4 to 6 mint leaves or pudina (optional)
- 1 garlic clove
- 1/8 inch ginger
- 1 tsp fried gram (optional)
- 1 tbsp water if needed
- salt very little or as needed
How to make the recipe
Preparation for aloo chaat
Wash and peel potatoes. Cube them to 1 inch pieces and soak in water until used.
To make green chutney, add coriander leaves, pudina, garlic, ginger, fried gram and salt to a mini blender jar. Add 1 tbsp water. Make a fine smooth green chutney. Set this aside.
Make aloo chaat - Method 1 - No deep fry
Boil potatoes till al dente. They must be just cooked without turning mushy. You can steam or pressure cook or boil them in a pot. Cool these completely and cube.
- Add oil to a pan and heat it. Add ginger or garlic and green chili.
Next add the potatoes and saute on a high flame until golden and little crisp.
- Turn off the stove.
Method 2 - Deep fry
Parboil cubed potatoes for few minutes. Drain and wipe off excess moisture.
Heat half cup oil in a deep pan. When the oil is hot enough drop the potato cubes and deep fry until crisp and cooked through. Remove to a mixing plate.
Make aloo chaat
Next to the hot fried potatoes, add red chilli powder, chaat masala powder, very little salt and cumin powder.
- Add green chutney, tamarind chutney or lemon juice. Check the salt and spice.
Mix well and transfer aloo chaat to a serving plate.
- Add some coriander leaves, sev and pomegranate seeds or raisins and cashews.
- Serve aloo chaat immediately.
preparation for aloo chaat recipe
1. Wash, peel and boil the potatoes in whatever way you prefer. They must be just cooked al dente and not turn mushy. I usually cube them and steam in a cooker just to make sure they don’t over cook. If you prefer to deep fry the potatoes then just parboil them for a while.
2. While the aloo boils, add all the ingredients mentioned to make green chutney to a mini blender jar. The quantity to make the chutney mentioned in the recipe card is too less and may be hard to blend in a normal jar unless using a mini jar. So you can check this post on green chutney to make more quantity.
3. Add oil to the pan. Add ginger or garlic and green chilies. or Alternately If you prefer deep fried crisp potatoes, then parboil potatoes. Wipe dry with a cloth. Heat oil in a kadai. Fry the potatoes in the hot oil until crisp and cooked thoroughly. Then skip to step 6. But I am just showing pan fried method here.
4. Add the potatoes and saute on a high flame stirring often.
5. They will turn golden in few minutes. They will also turn slightly crisp if potato is boiled al dente. Turn off the stove.
6. Add chaat masala powder and very little salt. There is salt also in the chutney so make sure you don’t add more here.
7. Also add red chili powder and jeera or cumin powder.
How to make aloo chaat
8. Mix everything well and transfer to a bowl.
9. Add green chutney & tamarind chutney or lemon juice.
10. Mix everything. Do adjust spice, chaat masala, cumin powder, green chutney, salt and lemon juice to suit your taste buds. If needed add more at this stage.
Transfer to a serving plate. Sprinkle some coriander leaves, generous amount of nylon sev and pomegranate seeds. You can replace pomegranate seeds with some sweet raisins and roasted cashews.
Serve aloo chaat immediately.
Poornima says
I feel happy to go through your recipes. Good and simple ingredients you use. Very fond of your recipes.
swasthi says
Hi Poornima
Thank you so much. Feeling happy!
🙂
Carol Geeck says
Looking forward to using your wonderful recipes…Thank you!
swasthi says
You are welcome Carol
Neha says
Thanks for the recipe.. So quick and yummy
Rumana says
Superb and delicious..