Easiest Way to Prepare Eating on a Dime Lucknowi Basket Chaat

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Easiest Way to Prepare Eating on a Dime Lucknowi Basket Chaat Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Lucknowi Basket Chaat. Very crispy and spicy bowl chaat or basket chat is made with fried basket or bowl, usually stuffed with the various type of vegetables and spices to make it a very tasty snack time recipe. In some regions of India, bowl chaat is also famous with the name of lucknowi chaat. Labels: Chaats, Garbanzo beans, Potatoes, Snacks, Street Side food.

Go ahead and try it for yourself and you will.

Put an end to your longing and visit the place for they not only provide that nerve-tingling taste but also have you all covered on the grounds of food hygiene and safety.

The cuisine of Lucknow is just incomplete without the tasty and spicy Lucknowi Chaats.

You can cook Lucknowi Basket Chaat using 58 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Lucknowi Basket Chaat

  1. Prepare For of Potato Basket–.

  2. Prepare 3 of medium sized potatoes.

  3. You need 1 bowl of chilled water.

  4. It’s 2 tbsp of cornflour.

  5. Prepare to taste of Salt.

  6. Prepare as required of Oil to fry.

  7. It’s 2 of tea strainers (steel) – 1 should be big and other a size less.

  8. It’s For of Tikkis–.

  9. It’s 1 of big sized Beetroot – Grated.

  10. You need 1 cup of spinach – Finely Chopped.

  11. It’s 1 of potato – Boiled and mashed.

  12. It’s 1 cup of peas – Boiled.

  13. Prepare 1 inch of ginger – Finely chopped.

  14. It’s 1/2 cup of Fresh Coriander leaves – Finely Chopped.

  15. It’s 1 tsp of Garam Masala.

  16. You need 1 tsp of Dhaniya Powder.

  17. It’s as per taste of Salt.

  18. Prepare as per taste of Pepper powder.

  19. Prepare 2 tbsp of cornflour powder.

  20. You need as required of Oil to fry.

  21. It’s For of White Peas–.

  22. You need 2 cups of dry white peas – Soaked and Boiled.

  23. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.

  24. Prepare 1 tsp of Garam Masala powder.

  25. Prepare 1 tsp of Amchur powder.

  26. Prepare 1 pinch of astoefida.

  27. You need For of Meethi Chutney –.

  28. You need 2 cups of Imli water – Soak imli overnight in water and drain in the morning. Save water.

  29. Prepare 2 of medium sized Jaggery.

  30. Prepare as per taste of Red chilli powder.

  31. You need 4-5 of dates – finely chopped.

  32. You need 1 tsp of ginger – finely chopped.

  33. Prepare 1 pinch of astoefida.

  34. You need 1 tsp of Cumin.

  35. You need as per taste of Salt.

  36. Prepare 1 tsp of Ghee.

  37. You need For of Green Chutney—.

  38. Prepare 1 cup of clean and fresh coriander leaves.

  39. It’s 1/2 cup of mint leaves.

  40. You need 1 of medium size tomato.

  41. It’s as required of Amchur powder.

  42. Prepare 1 tsp of Jeera powder.

  43. Prepare as per taste of Salt.

  44. Prepare few of Green chillies.

  45. You need 1 tsp of Ginger.

  46. You need 1/2 tsp of sugar.

  47. You need 1 of Juice of lemon.

  48. You need 6 of Curd-.

  49. You need 1 cup of thick curd.

  50. It’s 2 tsp of sugar.

  51. It’s For of Garnishing-.

  52. Prepare as required of Pomegranate seeds.

  53. You need as per taste of Red chilli powder.

  54. You need 1/2 tsp of Cumin powder.

  55. You need as required of Sev.

  56. It’s as required of Salted boondi.

  57. It’s some of Coriander leaves.

  58. Prepare as per taste of Chat Masala.

There are varieties of chaats and snack busters starting from dahi vada, aloo dum.

Tokri chaat, pani-batasha (in seven different flavors) to delicious basket chaat.

Basket Chaat at Gomti Nagar - Best Street Food in Lucknow Source.

Chaat is a quintessential dish in India.

Lucknowi Basket Chaat instructions

  1. Grate the potatoes well and dip them in chilled water for 20 mins. Till then let’s prepare the chutneys and matar. Green chutney – Mix all the ingredients together and grind well in the grinder. Adjust taste accordingly..

  2. Meethi Chutney – Heat ghee in a pan. Add astoefida, cumid seeds and ginger. Let them warm up. Add imli water and let it simmer on high. Add jaggery and spices. Add dates and let them simmer well for 20 mins. Curd – Mix curd well with sugar. Keep in the fridge. White peas – Take boiled peas. Add the spices. Mix well. Add lemon juice and mix well. Now all the accompaniments of our Basket Chaat are ready..

  3. For Baskets–

Take the grated potatoes and drain the water. Squeeze all the water out of them and spread them in a bowl. Add cornflour, salt and a tsp of oil. Mix really well. Heat oil in the kadhai. Take more oil so that there is no problem in dipping the baskets. Take the big strainer and arrange a portion of potatoes over it. Make sure the layer is not very thick and nor very thin. Arrange it well and put the 2nd strainer upon it. Now the potato layer is between the 2 strainers..

  1. Fry all the baskets with the same process. You can store these baskets for almost a week in a air-tight container..

  2. For Tikkis- I wanted to have a healthy tikki.. Well when it’s fried obviously it’s no more healthy still I tried my best in keeping it nutritious in terms of size, ingredients and oil. I kept the size small so that at-least we can have a control over the portions.

Mix all the ingredients of the tikkis very well. Adjust salt accordingly. Mix half of the cornflour in 1/3 cup.

  1. Arrange the Baskets

Now all the stuff is ready and it’s time to ponder upon these delightful Indian delicacy. 🙂 It’s sweet and tangy taste will definitely keep you dreaming about it throughout.

Take a potato basket. Put 1 or 2 tikkis over it. Spread 1 tbsp of White peas. Spread curd, green chutney. Sprinkle red chilli powder and cumin powder. Sprinkle grated coriander leaves pomegranate seeds etc. Sprinkle Sev Sprinkle Salted boondi Sprinkle chat masala Your Basket Chat is ready!.

Every Indian state manages to put their own spin to it.

Some states prefer to keep it spicy and some like it tangy.

Some even like it with curd and some like it mashed.

One of the most famous chaats in Lucknow is basket chaat.

Lucknowi Chaat is with a doubt Indian's favourite snack which spice up your mood by its super yummy taste.