Easy sweet potato chaat, chatpate shakarkand chaat

Easy sweet potato chaat for a filling, satisfying snack, be it mid noon snack or evening snack. Chatpate shakarkand chaat with few ingredients.

I recenetly came to know sweet potato is shakarkandi. The name itself was really tempting and fascinating to me. Was browsing Instagram explore feature and found this dish exists. Sounded super easy yet tasty. So picked up some sweet potato during my weekly groceries shopping.

Sweet chutney

Sweet chutney with tamarind and jaggery as main ingredients. This is a no dates version chutney for chaat recipes.

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There is a deep fried version of this chaat too. But I just proceeded as such. This is so versatile, adapt it according to your diet restrictions in Navaratri times and make it as falahari. Or make it like the regular chaat with onion, tomato, extra crushed puri and loads of sev.

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Easy sweet potato chaat

Easy sweet potato chaat for a filling, satisfying snack, be it mid noon snack or evening snack. Chatpate shakarkand chaat with few ingredients.

Course Snack

Cuisine Indian

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Servings 2

Cup measurements

Ingredients

1 Sweet potato large about 220 gms
1 tbsp green chutney
2 tbsp Tamarind chutney
1/2 lemon
1 tsp red chilli powder
1/2 tsp cumin seeds powder (bhuna jeera powder)
1 tsp chaat masala
1/4 tsp Kala namak
Salt as needed
2 tbsp coriander leaves
Sev for topping

Instructions

Peel and cut the sweet potato into bite sized pieces. Keep immersed in water to prevent blackening. Gather other required ingredients.
Bring water to boil and add sweet potato to it with required salt. Cook until soft without mashing.
Drain from water, place in a mixing bowl. Add lemon juice, chilli powder, roasted cumin seeds powder, chaat masala, kala namak.
Mix well. Transfer to serving bowl. Top it with sev and coriander leaves before serving.

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Notes

You can skip red chilli powder and add finely chopped green chilli.

Sweet potato chaat method:

Peel and cut the sweet potato into bite sized pieces. Keep immersed in water to prevent blackening. Gather other required ingredients.
Bring water to boil and add sweet potato to it with required salt. Cook until soft without mashing.
Drain from water, place in a mixing bowl. Add lemon juice, chilli powder, roasted cumin seeds powder, chaat masala, kala namak.
Mix well. Transfer to serving bowl. Top it with sev and coriander leaves before serving.