Hai,
I have attended classes for Bakery, Chat and Bengali recipes some time back. I have been trying them out one by one.
The Chat recipes I tried out only recently. I would say they were superb. I have tasted chat recipes at the Bikenerwala at Delhi and liked them immensely. These recipes bring back memories of those items. Hope you all will like.


Basic Green Chutney
Grind to a smooth paste with water- one cup each of coriander and pudina leaves (clean well), 2 or 3 green chillies. Add 4 tsps of jaljira powder (available in markets), salt and 2 tsp of jeera powder and 2 tsp of chat masala. Mix well and adjust water. This should be fairly thin.

Basic Date Chutney
Soak a fairly large lemon sized tamarind, 100 gm seedless dates in 1 cup hot water for 1 hour. Or microwave for 3 minutes in high. Blend well in mixer along with 1/2 or 3/4 cup jaggery. Add 1/4 tsp asafoetida powder and 1/2 tsp salt and boil till thick.

These two are needed for almost all chats. They can be prepared the previous day and refrigerated.

Special Dahi Masala Powder
cumin (jeera) - 2 tbsps, black cardamom (or usual ones) - 2 , pepper - 2 tsp, black salt - 1 tsp.
Dry roast all these together and cool and powder well. This gives a good aroma and taste to dahi chats and dahi bhalla.

Potato Masala for Dahi Poori
Boiled potato pieces - 1 1/2 cup, green chillies chopped - 4, ginger chopped - 1 tsp, coriander leaves chopped - 4 tbsp, curry leaves- a few, salt and chat masala to taste, oil - 2 tbsp.
Heat oi and fry ginger, chillies, curry leaves, Add potato,powders, salt and mix well. Put off fire and add coriander leaves and mix well.

Other powders needed
Chilli powder, chat masala powder, roasted jeera and pepper powder, garam masala powder.

Continued.........