Recipe- Potato Peas Chaat Style Salad For Guests

Aloo matar salad is a simple boiled potato, peas Chaat style salad without pooris and special chutneys.

This is one of the simple boiled Potato salads which I make in chat style but without gravy or chutney. Hence I would say this recipe is more of a salad than a Chaat.

The Potato peas Chaat style salad I gave here is the basic idea for kid’s snack box. You can always add extra additions like green chutney, tangy/sweet chutneys, or curd with fried Chaat pooris to make a perfect Chaat.

Moreover, this same boiled aloo salad recipe can be converted into the popular aloo matar chat by adding thin peas masala gravy and papads or broken samosas.

Ingredients

6 baby potatoes or 2 large potatoes
1 cup white peas cook separately
½ cup chopped onion
1 small tomato
1 carrot medium size
¾ tsp Chaat masala
¼ tsp chilli powder
¼ tsp Amchoor masala
¾ tsp salt as needed
½ lemon
Coriander leaves optional
½ cup bhujia or mixtur

Method

* Boil potatoes in a pressure cooker or open pot Al-dente. Do not cook until mush.

* I used baby potatoes and cooked for two whistles in a small pressure pan.

* For normal potatoes, one whistle may be enough based on your cooker type.

* Remove the peel and keep ready.

* Also, cook soaked dry white peas. I cooked the peas along with potatoes by keeping soaked matar(peas) in an inner vessel inside the cooker.

* Chop onion, tomato, coriander leaves and grate the carrot.

* In a mixing bowl, take boiled potatoes and mash them slightly.

* Add boiled white peas. I used dried white matar, cooked after soaking them for four hours.

* Put chopped onion, tomato and grated carrot.

* Add Chaat masala powder, some chilli powder, amchoor powder and salt.

* Few fresh lemon drops and gram mixture or bhujia(ompodi) just before serving. I like to use a spicy mixture instead of bhujia for the crunchy peanuts in the besan mixture.

* Mix everything together and serve as a salad or Chaat with any kind of tangy or sweet chutney.

* You can also add chopped coriander leave