Jammu special Kimb chaat | kimb recipe
Jammu special Kimb chaat is a tongue tingling sweet and spicy chaat made of citron fruit.
Ingredients
- 3 kimbs/Citrons
- 3/4 cup fresh coriander with stems
- 6 green chillies
- 1 inch ginger
- 6 tbsp sugar
- Salt to taste
- 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
- 1/4 cup Walnuts roughly chopped (optional)
ADDIONALLY REQUIRED
- Piece of charcoal
- 1 tsp mustard oil
Instructions
- Peel the kimb and cut from the center dividing into 2 halves.
- Remove the seeds from within the juicy part of all kimb pieces.
- Take one part of kimb and with the help of your hands, squeeze out entire juice out of it in a big bowl. Likewise squeeze out the juice from all the 6 parts.
- Now cut each part of kimb one by one into a reasonable sized pieces, direct into the bowl carrying juice. Keep aside.
- Take a blender and add coriander, ginger, green chillies, red chilli powder, salt and sugar.
- Make a paste out of it. You can add a bit of water if finding difficulty in making a paste.
- Transfer the coriander paste in bowl carrying kimb.
- Add Walnuts and give it a mix.
- Place a small steel/iron utensil in the middle of the bowl.
- Put a piece of burning charcoal in utensil and drop mustard oil over the charcoal.
- Immediately put a lid over the bowl so that smoke shouldn't escape out from the bowl.
- Rest for 2-3 minutes and thereafter remove the lid.
- Give a last mix. Kimb is ready.
- Enjoy.
Notes
- You can increase or decrease the quantity of kimbs/citrons as per your need depending upon the number of people to be served.
- Spiciness can be adjusted by decreasing or increasing the quantity of chillies. However authentically, this chaat is extremely spicy.
- In case you can't bare too much tanginess, then use the required squeezed out juice instead of whole. You can use left out juice in pickles or drinks.
- Though smoking part is shown as optional but highly recommended. It will take the taste of kimb chaat to another level.