Palak Chaat

Palak chaat | Palak Pakodi chaat | Palak leaves chaat with detailed steps & tips

                          Palak chaat is a unique Indian style snack recipe, there are many famous Indian dishes made using spinach such as Palak Paneer, Palak Millennium, Creamy Palak Soup etc but this one will be one of the most loved recipes by Indians irrespective of their age.

                           This recipe is the most simple chaat ever made using easily available home ingredients and you wont need any fancy ingredients. The most important tip to get perfect palak pakora is that the batter consistency should be little watery, if the batter is too thick the result dish would be like palak bajji rather than pakora, the leaves should be visible after frying as well. Wash and dry the spinach leaves, cut off the excess stems before dipping them in the batter.

                             Few more recipes you should give a try : palak millennium, palak roti, foxtail spinach delight, spinach soup, spinach corn rice and creamy palakoora pachadi

Let’s see the palak chaat recipe with detailed steps and tips : 

Palak Chaat

Mounica

Simple & Filling evening snack

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Prep Time 20 mins

Cook Time 20 mins

Course Appetizer

Cuisine Indian

Ingredients

  

• 15 – 20 Spinach Leaves stems removed
• Oil for deep frying

Batter Preparation

• 1 Cup Gram Flour / Besan
• 1 Cup Water
• 1.5 Tsp Red Chili Powder
• Salt as required (1 – 1.5 Tsp)

For Topping

• 1 Cup Onions finely Chopped
• 1 Cup Pomegranate seeds
• 1/2 Cup Fried Maggi / Sev (deep fry 1 block of maagi in oil until golden brown)
• 1/4 Cup Coriander Leaves finely Chopped
• 1/4 Cup Tomato Ketchup
• 1 – 2 Tbsp Salt, Red chili powder, Jeera powder, Chaat masala and Lemon each

Instructions

 

Palak fritters preparation

• Place a pan on stove, add oil and let heat.
• In a bowl add besan, salt, chili powder, water and mix without lumps
• Take a spinach leaf, dip it into the batter covering both sides of the leaf, then gently drop the coated leaves into the hot oil.
• Fry all the leaves until golden brown and crisp on both sides.
• Remove the fried spinach leaves from oil and place them in a separate bowl on a paper napkin.

Preparing palak chaat

• Place all the fried spinach leaves separately on a serving plate, add onions, salt, red chili powder, jeera powder, chaat masala,tomato ketchup, coriander leaves, fried maggi or nylon sev.
• Finally add pomegranate seeds, few drops of lemon on each leaf and serve immediately!

Notes

1. Instead of chaat masala you can add

1. Mixture of garam masala and dry mango powder
2.  Mixture of garam masala and fresh curd

2. Fried maggi adds a unique crunch to the chaat but you can also add nylon sev if you prefer.

3. The batter consistency should be thin and not be like regular bajji batter, if the batter is too thick the leaf tend to wrinkle when dipped into the batter.

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