Fruit chat. Fruit chaat, a spiced fruit salad, is a ubiquitous iftar fruit dish, present on pretty much every South Asian iftar table. You could argue that there really is no recipe for chaat and if there was, the variations would number in the hundreds if not thousands, as it changes with the seasons and according to each family's taste. Fruit Chaat is a tangy Indian chaat made by combining chilled juicy fruits like apples, bananas and grapes with salt and mild spices.
If you want to add a dressing, add it just before serving to avoid fruits from becoming soggy.
Start by picking your favorite fruits.
The most common one used in fruit chaat are apples, banana, grapes, pears, pomegranate.
You can have Fruit chat using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Fruit chat
- You need 4 of apples big.
- You need 15 of loquat.
- Prepare 3 of peach small.
- Prepare 6 of bananas.
- Prepare 10 of dates.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of sugar (optional).
- Prepare 1 tbsp of lemon juice.
For this recipe, I used only banana, apple and grapes since that's all I had in my refrigerator. Fruit chaat is made of a mix of fresh seasonal fruits and tubers like potatoes and sweet potatoes. The fruits and tubers are mixed with chaat masala and some more Indian spices. Thus the fruits retain their sweetness and yet are spicy and tangy to taste.
Fruit chat step by step
- Wash all fruits..
- In a bowl, All fruits cut into short pieces.
- Add 1 tbsp sugar and 1 tbsp lemon juice. Mix well..
- Cool in refrigerator for 30 minutes. Serve in iftari..
So is not fruit chaat a fruit salad? Fruit Salad This refreshing, rainbow fruit chaat recipe combines the fruity flavors of summer like watermelon, banana, apple and pineapple into one colorful summer salad. The cut fruits are tossed in a mixture of freshly ground black pepper, roasted cumin powder, chaat masala and black salt. Chaat are savoury/ sweet snack popular around India. Generally it is made using a myriad of ingredients like chutneys, spices, tikki, samosa, ragda, sev, papdi, puri, boondi etc.
