Jul 22, 2010

Tomato Chaat

I just can’t resist thinking that every time I went to Bangalore I used to have this delicious chaat. It’s a street food famous in Bangalore & a must have spicy chaat. It’s mouthwatering & very light & healthy too.

Ingredients
Tomato 2 sliced in round shaped
Onion 1cup chopped
Carrot grated 1cup
Green chutney 2tbsp (recipe in the blog)
Jeera powder 1tsp
Chat masala 1tsp
Salt ½ tsp
Red chilli powder 1/4 tsp
Sev for garnish
Puffed rice/ Murmura ¼ cup
Fried peanuts chopped ¼ cup
finely chopped cilantro 1tbsp
Lemon juice: 2-3 drops

Method:
•Powder mixture: Mix the jeera powder, red chilli powder, salt, chat masala and keep it aside.
•Cut the tomato into slices (round shaped). Place these slices next to each other on a serving plate. Apply green chutney on each tomatoes.
•Smear the powder mixture all over the tomato slices well. Put a tsp of chopped onions & grated carrot on each slice of the tomatoes.
•Sprinkle some lemon juice on each of the slices.
•Generously sprinkle roasted peanuts, sev & puffed rice.
•Garnish with cilantro. Serve immediately.

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