Matar Chaat Recipe – How to make Matar Chaat Delhi Style !!
How to Make Matar Chaat – This is one of the most famous street food you will find in Delhi. Matar is not really green peas but dry white peas.
A very quick and Tasty Chaat recipe. Serve with Kulcha bread (Dhaba Style Recipe Coming Soon) !!
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Matar Chaat Recipe – Delhi Style !!
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Prep Time20minutes
Cook Time5minutes
Total Time25minutes
Servings3
Ingredients
To Cook in Pressure Cooker
Matar / Dry White Peas - 1 Cup
Salt - 1 Tsp
Water - 1.5 Cups
For Tamarind Water
Tamarind Paste - 1 Tbsp
Warm Water - 1/3 Cup
To Make Chaat
Onions - 1/3 CupFinely Chopped
Tomatoes - 1/4 Cup
Green Chillies - 3
Ginger - 1 InchJulienned
Cilantro - 5 Tbsp
Kala Namak / Black Salt - 2 Tsp
Chaat Masala - 1/2 Tsp
Roasted Cumin Powder - 3 Tsp
Red Chilli Powder - 1/2 Tsp
Lemon Juice - 1.5 Tbsp
Instructions
Soak Matar in 3 to 4 cups water for 7 to 8 hours.
Rinse and wash the soaked Matar properly.
Add the Matar to a pressure Cooker.
Add Salt, Water and Mix.
Cook for 4 to 5 whistles if using big cooker or 6 to 8 whistles if using small cooker.
Let the cooker depressuirse on its own.
Open the cooker and make sure Matar are cooked properly.
Mash some matar If there is some water left then cook the beans with cooker open till the water is soaked.
Tamarind Water
Add Tamarind Paste to warm Water.
Mix it together till the color of water changes.
Take a Tea strainer and strain the liquid in another bowl while mashing the Tamarind in the strainer.
Do this process 3 times.
Assembling Chaat
In a big tall bowl take the boiled matar.
Add Onions, Tomatoes, Green Chillies, Ginger, Cilantro, Kala Namak, Roasted Cumin Powder, Chaat masala, Red chilli powder , Lemon juice and Tamarind Water - 3 Tbsp.