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Dahi Aloo Chat

By Anjana Chaturvedi @maayeka

Quick and tempting snack of boiled potato,yogurt and Indian spicesPotato is the worlds most popular vegetable.We don't have to think much about using potatoes as there are endless numbers of recipes to make with potatoes.In fact most of the Indian street food are made with potatoes. side dish ,snack,curries and even dessert can be made with potato,my favorite sweet is -Potato halwa.
Potato bread rolls minty potato, Potato cup chat are many snack I have already posted,but they need some pre planning, stir frying or deep frying.As we all know that if potato is fried then only it become loaded with calories,boiled potato is not that high in calorie so can be used easily and guilt free.
This dahi aloo chat is a popular street food/chat of North India specially from my home town.
boiled potatoes are soaked in yogurt and then roasted cumin powder, chili powder is sprinkled over it. A spoon full of green chutney and tamarind chutney is drizzled over to make it delicious and tempting.\
This is also a ideal recipe for fasting days as it didn't require frying or roasting and use the  delicious -Aam papad chutney and green chutney to drizzle over it if you are fasting
dahi wali aloo ki chat
Prep time- 10 minDifficulty level-easySpice level-mildCuisine-North IndianType-Snack,street foodServe-3Dahi Aloo Chat
Ingredients
  • 3 (small size) - Potato, boiled
  • 1 cup of - Yogurt /dahi
  • To taste- Salt /namak
  • 1/2 tsp - Chili powder /lal mirch
  • 1/2 tsp - Roasted cumin powder/bhuna jeera
  • 1/4 tsp- Black salt /kala namak
  • 2 tbsp - Tamarind chutney /imli ki chutney (recipe here)
  • 2 tbsp - Green mint chutney /hari chutney(recipe here )
  • A pinch of - Sugar
Cooking Directions
  1. Peel and chop potatoes into small cubes.
  2. Take yogurt in a bowl and whisk it well
  3. Add sugar,salt and black salt in the yogurt and mix well.
  4. Add chopped potatoes in the yogurt.
  5. Let it soak for 15 minutes.
  6. Now serve in individual serving bowls.
  7. Sprinkle chili powder and roasted cumin powder over it.
  8. Drizzle some tamarind chutney, mint chutney and pomegranate seeds.
  9. Best served chilled.
NOTE-
  1. If you are fasting then use pepper powder instead of chili powder.
  2. Use mango leather chutney /aam paapd chutney if you are fasting.
  3. Instead of boiled potatoes you can also use deep fried potato cubes.

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