Peanut Chaat | Peanut Salad | Verkadalai Sundal Chaat

Peanut Chaat is a healthy and extraordinary street food recipe which is made with boiled peanut. It is a great, quick and protein packed tea time snack which is loaded with carrot, onion, tomato and raw mango. It is a very mild dish which even kids like them. Enjoy a handful of this peanut chaat with a cup of tea in the evening. Recipe after the jump...

Peanut Chaat

Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Recipe Category: Chaat

Soaking Time: 2hrs | Cooking Time: 15 mins | Serves: 3

Ingredients:

Peanut - 1 cup

Tomato - 1, deseed and chop

Onion - 1, medium

Raw Mango - 2 tblspn

Carrot - 1/4 cup

Green chillies - 1

Coriander leaves - to garnish

Lemon juice - as per your taste

Spice powders:

Chilli powder - 1/4 tsp

Chaat masala - 1/4 tsp

Salt - to taste

Method:

Soak the peanut for 2 hours and pressure cook adding little salt till it becomes tender.

Deseed the tomato and finely chop tomato, onion and mango. Grate some carrots.

In a large mixing bowl, take peanut, tomato, onion, chilli, mango, chilli powder and combine everything together.

Check for salt and add if required.

Squeeze lemon juice over it and give it a good mix. Garnish with coriander leaves and grated carrot.

Sprinkle some chaat masala on the top.

It's ready to serve.

Note:

• If you add onion at the beginning it will leave some water and have sharp and pungent taste. So you can add on top while serving.

Pictorial:

Soak Peanuts for 2 hours

Pressure cook till til becomes tender adding little salt

Deseed the tomato. Finely chop green chilli, tomato, onion and coriander leaves. Grate some carrot and raw mango.

Now take the cooked peanut in a bowl and add in the following ingredient one by one. Add tomato

Add in onion and green chilli. Sometimes if you add onion at the beginning it will leave some water and have sharp and pungent taste. So you can add on top while serving.

Grated mango goes in now

Add very little chilli powder. When you mix the taste will be mild but later it will may become very spicy. So just add 1/4 tsp chilli powder

Mix everything together

Add some grated coconut and coriander leaves. You can add this just before serving

Squeeze some lemon juice. This is totally up to your taste

Sprinkle little chaat masala on the top and serve