Aloo Tikki Chat

I am crazy for Chat items, especially Aloo tikki or gol gappa aka pani puri.

This diwali i got 4 days off from work so decided to try out some chat at home to surprise my husband.

Actually making chat is very easy but you need lot of ingredients for that which makes it a bit a difficult task.

I am sharing my recipe for Aloo Tikki here.

What you need

Potatoes - 4 boiled and peeled

Bread slices - 8

Corriander chutney - 1/2 cup

Tamarind Chutney - 1/2 cup

Sev - 1/2 cup

Chopped onions - 1/4 cup

Green peas - 1/2 cup

Jeera powder - 1 tsp

Curd - 1/4 cup

garam masala - 1/2 tsp

Chat masala - 1/2 tsp

black salt - as required

salt - as required

oil - for shallow frying

How to prepare

First boil and peel the potatoes and mash them adding a little bit salt.

 Cook green peas with garam masala and salt so that a dry dish is made without much water and keep aside.

Now cut the sides of the bread slices and wet them with water and mix well with mashed potatoes. Make balls with the potato bread mix and flatten them a little. But don't make them too thin, it should be as thick as cutlets.

Now heat oil on a frying pan or kadai and shallow fry the tikkis till both sides turn brown.

Now the tikkis are ready. Keep them in a bowl or serving dish. Mash them a little and put the green peas masala dish on it's top. Add the curd on top of this. Now sprinkle jeera powder,chat masala and black salt on top of this. Add the corriander chutney and tamarind chutney on top of this. Sprinkle the chopped onions and sev also and your delicious chat is ready!

For tamarind chutney

Mix some tamarind pulp and jaggery in some water and boil, simmer for a few minutes till it becomes thick. Now add jeera powder,dried ginger powder and blacksalt and remove from heat.

For corriander chutney

Grind corriander leaves,green chilly,ginger garlic and tomato(you can add either tamarind or lemon juice instead of tomato) with enough salt to a thick paste.

Mutter Paneer

I am not very fond of paneer usually, but if I get good spicy mutter paneer with hot rotis or parathas then it makes a good lunch or dinner for me. So when my mother-in-law came to stay with me i made it first time with her guidence. It turned out well. So at times now i make this at home when i am bored of normal plain food. So here i share the recipe so that anyone can try it at home


Ingredients

Paneer - 200 grams
Mutter(Green peas) - 1 cup
Onion - 2 medium chopped
Tomato - 1 medium chopped
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
chilly powder - 1 tsp
garam masala - 1 or 2 tsp according to your spice level
kasoori methi - 1 tsp
cashew nut - 1 tbsp soaked and ground to a fine paste
Water - 1/2 cup
butter - 1 tsp
oil - 3 tbsp
salt - as required
corriander leaves - to garnish

First cut the paneer into small cubes and fry in one tbsp oil till they become a little firm.(Don't no fry too much since the paneer will become hard).Spread it on a tissue paper so that oil will be absorbed. Now in the same pan oil fry the chopped onions adding turmeric and little bit of salt. Once they turn golden brown, fry the tomamtoes also till they are mashed and the raw smell is gone. Now let it cool and grind to a fine paste in the mixer. Fry the paste in the remaining oil adding ginger garlic paste for one minute. Then add the other powders and kasoori methi and fry well. Now add the green peas so that it's coated with the masala well. (Frozen green peas is the best for this dish and will be cooked fast. If using dried green peas then it has to be soaked and boiled before itself) Then add the cashew paste and salt if required. Without adding cashew paste also you can make the dish but cashew brings a special flavour and taste to the dish).Add water and cover the pan and let it cook. After few minutes open the pan and check whether green peas is cooked well. Then add the fried paneer and stir well. Now you can switch off the stove and add butter on top of the dish and garnish with chopped corriander leaves.