Tangy, crunchy, layered street snacks built around chutneys, yogurt and spice.
Chaat · North India
Spiced mashed potato is pressed into thick discs and browned on a flat pan until the outside turns crackly while the middle stays tender, and the patties are then dressed with yogurt, chutneys, a spoonful of chickpea gravy and sev.
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Crumbled puri shells and puffed rice are mixed with spiced potato, chutney and a generous splash of tamarind water, giving a loose, sour, crunchy bowl that grows out of Kolkata's puchka stalls.
View Recipe →Chaat · Pan-India
Kernels of boiled or flame-charred corn are mixed with onion, tomato, coriander, lime and chaat masala to make a light, quick chaat of the kind sold from carts all over India.
View Recipe →Chaat · West India
Each hollow, crisp puri carries a spoonful of seasoned potato, then a cap of whisked yogurt, two chutneys, sev and pomegranate, and the whole plate is meant to be eaten cold, almost as soon as it is built.
View Recipe →Chaat · Pan-India
Chopped seasonal fruit dressed with lime, chaat masala and a little black salt, so the sweetness of the fruit meets a salty, sour counterpoint.
View Recipe →Chaat · North India
Hollow, brittle semolina shells stuffed with spiced potato and chickpeas, then filled at the very last moment with sharp mint water or mellow tamarind water.
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Crisp puffed rice, thrown together with mustard oil, raw onion, green chilli, peanuts, cucumber and tomato, then lifted with lime and handed over in a paper twist.
View Recipe →Chaat · North India
Firm fried crackers of wheat and gram flour are snapped onto a plate and covered with spiced potato, chickpeas, sweetened yogurt, two chutneys and sev, a single dish to be shared rather than bites eaten one by one.
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Potato cakes browned in a shallow pan and sunk into a thin, lightly spiced white pea stew, then topped with sweet-sour tamarind, green chutney, raw onion and a shower of fine sev.
View Recipe →Chaat · West India
Flat, crackling discs of fried dough piled with diced potato, onion and tomato, streaked with sweet-sour tamarind and a sharp herb chutney, then buried under a handful of thin gram-flour sev.
View Recipe →Chaat · West India
Puffed rice is mixed at the very last moment with diced vegetables, fine sev and two chutneys, and eaten straight away while each grain is still dry and snapping.
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