Aloo Tikki Chaat

Here is a step by step recipe for making aloo tikki chaat, one of the most favorite evening snacks for many, specially the north indians :)

There are several items to be prepared independently in order to come up with this yummy treat, follow my steps n lets do some good to your taste buds :)

Serves: 3-4

We need to prepare following:

1. Aloo tikki
2. Curd
3. Imli chatni
4. Green chatni ( if desired)
5. Peas filling for tikki

Imli chatni needs some preparation before hand so lets start with that first.

Imli chatni(sweet chatni)

Cooking Time: 15-20 minutes

Ingredients

• Imli 50gm
• Jaggary (gud) 100gm
• Black salt(rock salt) 1 tsp
• Red chilli powder 1tsp
• Pepper 1 tsp

Method

• Soak imli in normal water just enough to wet it, for 3 hours.
• After 3 hours, mash imli as it becomes softer and remove hard seeds and reshe(threads like stuff), you can use a strainer as well with slightly bigger holes so that you don't waste the soft pulp during straining.
• Cut jaggary into smaller pieces, add these to imli pulp.
• Take a kadhai, add this mixture of imli pulp & jaggary and heat on medium flame for 10-12 minutes. If mixture looks too thick after heating add little water n mix well, heat for 2 more minutes, you can add more jaggary if you want it sweeter.
• Now add red chilli, rock salt and pepper.
• Mix well and keep aside to cool.
• Your imli chatni is ready :)

Curd.

Cooking Time: 5-10 minutes

• Take 200 gms of curd, beat to fine consistency by adding water if desired.
• Add little pinch of salt, roasted cumin powder , pinch of red chilli powder.
• Mix well, curd is ready, keep in fridge till rest of stuff is ready.

Peas stuffing

Cooking Time: 10-15 minutes
Ingredients

• Fresh peas 1 katori (100 gms) if you have frozen peas, boil them once to make them little softer.
• Ginger -grate a small piece of ginger around 1.5 inch :)
• Cumin 1 tsp
• Coriander leaves finely chopped 
• Oil 1 tbsp

Method

• Take kadhai heat it, add oil
• When oil is hot add cumin seeds.
• Add ginger, pinch of salt.
• Add peas, mix well.
• Let this cook for 5-8 minutes on medium flame.
• Check peas are not hard and are eatable 
• Remove from flame and add coriander leaves.

Aloo tikki

Cooking Time: 20-25 minutes

Ingredients

• Boiled potato - 6 medium
• Red chilli powder 1/2 tsp

Method

• Grate/finely mash boiled potatoes.
• Add red chilli powder and make a nice dough.
• Use some oil to grease your hand and take small portion of mashed potato mix.
• Make a ball and make it flat like a disc.
• Now using your thumb and fingers make a slight depression in disc and add 1 tsp peas mixture.
• Roll potato over peas mixture to make stuffed ball. Make it flat and tikki is ready to fry.
• Repeat this to make more tikkis.
• Take a tawa, heat it, add generous amount of oil and fry tikkis till golden brown like shown in picture.

How to assemble chat

• Take a serving plate.
• Add 2 pieces of fried aloo tikki
• Add curd, chatni, as per your liking of sweet sour flavour of chaat.
• Garnish with a pinch of red chilli powder, roasted cumin powder and chopped coriander leaves.