chicken chaat salad

Chicken chaat salad. If you are looking for an Indian inspired and absolutely delicious composed salad this is it. Big Indian flavours in a traditional main course salad.

I’m pretty sure I will catch some flak for the title of this post. Chaat means savoury snack in India. Street food. It also almost always includes chaat masala. Anything masala means a spice mix of sorts.

This isn’t really a savoury snack and it doesn’t include chaat masala. If I included a masala you’d have to go out of your way to find it. Hunt around for an Indian food shop, get there and buy it. Bet it wouldn’t happen. You’d just never try this recipe. That would be too bad.

The chicken in this appetizer is all Indian. Serve it on an Indian flat bread – that’s chicken chaat.  The salad part – well that’s done somewhere I’m sure. Maybe.

This makes a nice western style starter to any Indian meal. You can increase the portion size, add some chickpeas to the salad and drizzle it with a yoghurt dressing. That makes a great light main course.

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chicken chaat salad

Chicken chaat salad makes a nice starter or a light main course. The lemon, coriander and spices strike a nice balance of sour, savoury and spicy. Salt your greens, then drizzle the salad with a bit of oil and lemon juice before topping with the chicken.

Course Appetizer

Cuisine Indian

Keyword chicken chaat salad

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

Servings 4

Calories 202kcal

Ingredients

• 2 Tbsp vegetable oil
• 2 chicken breasts boneless, skinless, cut into bite sized pieces.
• 1/2 onion coarsely chopped
• 1 Tbsp garlic ginger paste - recipe link below
• 1 tsp ground coriander
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1 tsp paprika
• 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
• 1/4 tsp black pepper
• 1/3 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 Tbsp lemon juice
• 1 handful cilantro chopped
• 1 splash chicken stock

Instructions

• Combine all spices and salt in a small dish.
• Heat oil in a frying pan over medium heat.
• Add oil, then fry the onion gently until translucent.
• Reduce heat to medium low and add the garlic ginger paste. Fry until sizzling subsides.
• Add the spices and stir constantly for about 1 minute. You do not want your spices to burn so pay attention.
• Raise heat to medium high. Add chicken and fry, stirring occasionally for about 2 minutes.
• Add a bit of chicken stock and cook the chicken until just done and the stock has almost entirely boiled away. This takes about 5 minutes.
• Add lemon juice and cilantro and continue cooking for one minute more.
• Serve over greens or with Indian flat bread.

Notes

If you don't have garlic ginger paste just use equal portions of garlic and ginger really finely diced and cook it gently so it doesn't burn.

The specified amount of cayenne is moderately spicy. If you don't like spicy roll back on it. If you like spicy add some chopped green chilies.

Measure your dry spices into one small container so you can add them all at once.

Nutrition

Serving: 4servings | Calories: 202kcal | Carbohydrates: 2g | Protein: 24g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 72mg | Sodium: 328mg | Potassium: 460mg | Vitamin A: 430IU | Vitamin C: 4.8mg | Calcium: 17mg | Iron: 0.9mg