Ragda Chaat Recipe | Matar Chaat Recipe

Ragda Chaat Recipe | Matar Chaat Recipe is one of the popular evening snacks made with potatoes and white peas garnished with onions, fried peanuts and other crunchy snacks. Learn how to make the perfect ragda chaat recipe.

People love to eat this recipe during the evenings as this is spicy, sweet and sour. Also who loves eating pani puri recipe will like to eat matar chaat. Most of the time people often eat this recipe and continued with pani puri recipe.

I have found a small variation in this recipe in South India, street-side people make this recipe on customer choice either with samosa recipe or with aloo mash accompanied with boiled peas. Based on the spiciness they adjust adding spices.

Homemade ragda chaat can be served as an evening snack or can be added as a base with pav bhaji bread by slightly frying bread in a spoon of ghee. People in North India like to eat this ragda chaat as a curry with roti or chapati.

Tips to make a perfect Ragda chaat recipe:

• Before cooking white peas directly it’s a good idea to soak them overnight. It not only gives good taste but gives a soft texture with less fuel.
• We can cook peas and potatoes separately but to save time and fuel I have added both of them to a pressure cooker.
• For making Ragda chaat | Matar Chaat Recipe, a part of peas need to be mashed to give a gravy texture.
• We can make this recipe either by adding potato or samosa which not only give crispy maida layer but also cooked potato inside it.
• Adjust spices as per your taste, based on the spiciness we can add lemon extract or discard it.
• While garnishing, we can put available ingredients, few even add poha and sev.
• On the streets, they even add curd, tomato sauce, green sauce and grated carrots.

You may also like to check other snack recipes:

Masala corn recipe,

Chatpata matar namkeen,

Rice flour onion vada,

Raw banan bajji and

Andhra cut mirchi bajji.

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Ragda Chaat Recipe | Matar Chaat Recipe

RagdaChaat Recipe | Matar Chaat Recipe is one of the popular evening snacks made with potatoes and white peas garnished with onions, tomatoes, poha and fried peanuts.

Course Snack

Cuisine Indian

Keyword matar chaat recipe, ragda chaat recipe

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

Servings 4

Author Uppada Lakshmi

Ingredients

• White peas – 1 cup
• Water to soak
• Potato – 1 medium size
• Turmeric powder – ½ tbsp.
• Crystal salt – ½ tbsp.
• Oil – 4 tbsp.
• Cumin seeds/ jeera – ½ tbsp.
• Dry red chillies – 2 No.
• Onions – ½ cup
• Ginger garlic paste – ½ tbsp.
• Tomatoes – ½ cup
• Salt – 1 tbsp.
• Cumin powder – ½ tbsp.
• Coriander powder – ½ tbsp.
• Red chilli powder – 1 tbsp.
• Chat masala – 1 tbsp.
• Garam masala powder – ¼ tbsp.
• Fried corn flakes – 2 tbsp.
• Fired peanuts – 2 tbsp.
• Kara boondi – 2 tbsp.
• Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp.

Instructions

1. Soak white peas overnight by adding adequate water.
2. Drain water and put peas in a pressure cooker. Put little water, add potato, little turmeric powder, crystal salt and oil and little water.
3. Pressure cook on medium flame and for 4 whistle blows so that peas turn soft.
4. In a pan, add little oil and fry onions, dry red chillies, ginger-garlic paste and tomatoes.
5. Close the lid and cook till tomatoes cook soft, open the lid and sprinkle red chilli powder, turmeric powder, salt, coriander powder, cumin powder, garam masala and chat masala powder.
6. On other hand, when peas are cooked, transfer potato and peas to another bowl.
7. To give a soft texture, put ¼ part of peas along with remaining stock in a mixer grinder and make a soft paste.
8. Mash potatoes and put in a tomato base, add remaining peas and put little water and mix.
9. Cook for a minute or two till we get a thick gravy. Ragda chaat recipe is ready, serve in a bowl.
10. Garnish it with tomato slices, onions, khara boondi, fried peanuts, corn flakes and coriander leaves.

Recipe Video

How to make Ragda chaat recipe:

1. Put white peas in a bowl and pour adequate water to soak overnight.

2.  Drain soaked water and put peas in a pressure cooker and add one medium-sized potato.

3.  Add little water, sprinkle ¼ tbsp. turmeric powder, crystal salt and 1 tbsp. oil. Pressure cook for 4 whistle blows on medium flame.

4.  Heat 3 tbsp. oil in a pan, dry red chillies, onions and ginger-garlic paste.

5.  Add tomatoes and cook for a while with the lid covered till tomatoes turn soft.

6.  Sprinkle salt, cumin powder, coriander powder and red chilli powder.

7.  Add ¼ tbsp. turmeric powder, chat masala, garam masala powder and mix all spices.

8.  Open pressure cooker, remove potato and peas and put them in another vessel.

9.  Put ¼ portion of peas along with stock in a mixer grinder and grind to a soft paste. At the same time mash potatoes to paste.

10.  Add peas, potato mash and batani paste and adequate water and mix well.

11.  Cook for a minute and let gravy turn thick. Serve Ragda chaat recipe in a bowl.

12.  Garnish with sliced onions, tomatoes, fried corn flakes, peanuts, khara boondi or mixture and coriander leaves.

Watch this recipe video on (Youtube).

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