Homemade chaat masala | How to make Chaat Masala | chat masala recipe
Homemade chaat masala is a dry spice blend, made of hot and tangy spices used for giving zisty lift to certain street foods.
Ingredients
1 Cup = 200ml
- 1/4 cup cumin seeds/jeera
- 2 tbsp coriander seeds/dhania beej
- 1/2 tsp cloves/loung
- 2 tbsp black pepper/kali mirch
- 2 dry red chillies sukhi lal mirch
- 1/2 nutmeg jayefal
- 2 inch dry ginger/sukha adrak
- 1/2 tsp carom seeds/ajwain
- 3 tbsp dry mint leaves/sukha pudina
- 1/2 tsp citric acid/tatri/nimbusat optional
- 1/2 tsp asafoetida/hing
- 1/4 cup dry mango powder/amchur
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp black salt
Instructions
- Take a non stick pan and put on low heat. Remember, all the process needs to be done on low heat only.
- Add cumin and coriander seeds. Dry roast till they slightly change their colour.
- Take them out in a bowl.
- Now put cloves, nutmeg, black pepper, red chillies and dry ginger in the pan. Dry roast till nice aroma comes out of them and they get roasted good.
- Take them too out in the same bowl.
- Now roast mint leaves till they slightly turn brown. Transfer them to the bowl.
- Roast carom seeds for couple of seconds only because it gets burn immediately. This too needs to be transferred to the same bowl carrying all the ingredients.
- Once all the roasted spices turn completely cool, transfer them to a grinder jar.
- Add dry mango powder, salt, black salt, asafoetida and citic acid.
- Grind them to a very fine powder.
- Chaat masala is ready.
Notes
Instead of dry mint leaves, you can use fresh one also. Roast them till the point they turn dry and crisp.