Black chick pea chaat | chana chaat

Chana chaat, a protein rich healthy snack made with chana (chickpeas) and basic ingredients is a perfect snack food for kids or a lunchbox. If you have the leftover boiled chickpeas or canned chickpeas it hardly takes 5 minutes to assemble all the ingredients.

Ingredients

• 1 cup black chick peas
• 1 large onion, finely chopped
• 1 tomato, finely chopped
• 1 tsp chaat masala
• 1 tbsp green chutney
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 2 tbsp coriander leaves, finely chopped
• Salt to taste
• 1 tbsp pomegranate seeds
• 1/4 cup sev

Method

• Rinse chickpeas, soak in water overnight or for 7 hours. Drain and cook the chick peas until soft. Keep aside.

• In a wide bowl, add onion, tomato, green chutney, salt, chaat masala, and cooked chick peas. Combine everything well.

• Garnish with pomegranate seeds, coriander leaves and sev.