This is one of those recipes you can prepare when you feel like having some spicy, that fills your tummy little not completely ruin your dinner or lunch. This becomes a perfect evening snack for that reasons.
The ingredients used in this recipe are easily available and the commons ones used in almost every other recipe. So, keep them stocked.
The English language has 26 letters in it and has been used to create so many beautiful stories, poems. So do these ingredients which are used to create so many recipes with different level of deliciousness. Isn’t it amazing? Well, enough of analogy. I’ll leave you with this recipe of Cheela Chaat with step by step photos.
Preparation Time: 15 Minutes
Cooking Time: 10 Minutes
Ingredients for filling:
Ingredients | Quantity |
White chickpeas / Kabuli chana (Boiled) | 100 gram |
Black chickpeas / kala chana (Boiled) | 100 gram |
Potato (Boiled, peeled and chopped ) | 3 no’s |
Sweet tamarind chutney | 1 tablespoon |
Green chilli chutney | 1 tablespoon |
Hung curd | 50 gram |
Green chilli | 2 no’s |
Coriander leaves | 1/2 bowl |
Lime juice | 2 teaspoon |
Chaat masala | 1/2 teaspoon |
Onion (Chopped) | 1 |
Tomato (De-seeded and chopped) | 1 |
Salt | to taste |
Ingredients for Cheela:
Ingredients | Quantity |
Bengal gram lentils/ Chana daal | 150 gram |
White Split lentils/ Dhuli Urad daal | 150 gram |
Cumin seeds | 1 teaspoon |
Green chutney | 2 tablespoon |
Turmeric powder | 1/2 teaspoon |
Salt | to taste |
Vegetable oil | 2 tablespoon |
Method:
1. Soak both the lentils for 3 hours before grinding. Grind together Soaked white split lentil, Bengal gram lentil, cumin seeds, turmeric and salt along with little water to make Cheela batter fine. Combine all the ingredients given under table “ Ingredients for filling” in a broad bowl and mix it well. Your sweet and sour filling is ready for cheela.
2. Add green chutney in cheela batter and mix it well, cheela batter is ready. Heat the non-stick pan and pour some amount of cheela batter with the help of kalchi and spread it on the tawa like dosa. Cheela should not be thick nor thin.
3. you can see the image of cheela below. Sprinkle little oil on cheela and cook covered on slow heat for 7-8 minutes.
4. Put 2 tablespoon filling on cheela as shown below in the image and fold it. Sweet and sour cheela chaat is ready, serve hot with your favourite sauce and beverages.
5. Enjoy!!