Fruit Chaat Recipe (Delhi Street Style)
This Delhi style tasty fruit chaat is spiced, savory, sweet and tangy. Fruit chaat is made of a mix of fresh seasonal fruits and tubers like potatoes and sweet potatoes tossed with chaat masala, cumin powder, chilli powder and black salt.
Ingredients
- ½ cup chopped banana (or 2 medium-sized, chopped in ½ inch rounds)
- 1 cup chopped mangoes (or 1 medium to large, chopped in ½ to 1 inch cubes)
- 1 cup chopped apples (or 1 large, chopped in ½ to 1 inch cubes)
- 1 cup sweet potatoes (- boiled, peeled and chopped in ½ to 1 inch cubes or 2 small sweet potatoes - optional)
- 1 cup chopped potato (chopped in ½ to 1 inch cubes or 1 large potato - can boil potatoes instead of frying)
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice (or add as required)
- 1 teaspoon chaat masala
- 1 teaspoon roasted cumin powder
- ½ teaspoon red chili powder (or cayenne pepper, add as required)
- ½ teaspoon black salt (or add as required)
Instructions
- 1
Before you make the fruit chaat, boil the sweet potatoes and fry the potatoes. You can boil or steam the sweet potatoes in an Instant pot or a steamer or a stovetop pressure cooker adding water as required.
- 2
Rinse the potatoes in fresh water. Peel and chop them in ½ to 1 inch cubes. Heat ½ cup of oil or as required for frying the potatoes in a pan.
- 3
When the oil becomes medium hot add the potatoes. Fry them until lught golden or golden.
- 4
Place the fried potatoes on kitchen paper towels to absorb excess oil.
- 5
Chop the fruits. If you want you can rub a bit of lemon juice on the banana slices and apple cubes so that they don't get browned and also gives a sour hint to the fruits.
- 6
In a bowl add the chopped fruits one by one. Add the boiled sweet potato cubes and the fried potatoes.
- 7
Add lemon juice. For the best taste use fresh lemon juice.
- 8
Add all the spice powders and black salt or reqular salt to taste. Toss and mix well so that the ground spices and seasonings coat the fruits and tubers.
- 9
Check the seasonings and add more salt or lemon juice if necessary.
- 10
Serve fruit chaat garnished with some mint leaves.