Papdi Chaat or Papri Chaat is one of my favorite chaat that can be assembled quickly once you have papdi ready. But the highlight is, there is lot of substitutes available for this papdis also. Papri or Papdi means wafers or crackers. Traditionally this chaat is prepared with the fried flour wafers, topped with boiled potatoes, onions, tomatoes, sev and of course with sweet and green chutney. You can add yogurts and make it Dahi Papdi Chaat and that’s what I am presenting today.
For Pani Puri, we use black chick peas whereas for papdi chaat we go with garbanzo beans. As I mentioned above, some of the substitutes that I have tried so far are,
- Instead of papdis, I have tried tortilla chips. Both corn flavored ones and also veggie flavored ones.
- Err, Ritz crackers also. But never topped it up with yogurt though. (Need to give it a try)
I always have canned garbanzo beans in my pantry to quickly whip up chole or some side for roti. That comes in handy for this chaat. So my go to chaat or starter is always this papdi chaat and we can whip up zillion varieties with these simple ingredients that we have in hand.
For this marathon, I wanted to try everything from scratch. But with hectic schedule, I had to go semi-homemade for few recipes. So for Pani Puri, I went with store bought ones, but luckily I was able to try homemade papdi’s and I posted the recipe yesterday. This recipe and the one coming tomorrow call for this homemade papdis.
Here comes the papdi and also the assembling video,
Ingredients:
- Papdis – 10
- Potato – 1
- Chopped Tomato – 1
- Chopped Onion – ¼ cup
- Boiled Channa Dal – ¼ cup
- Sweet Chutney – 2 tsps for each plate
- Mint Chutney – 2 tsps for each plate
- Yogurt – ½ cup
- Sev – handful
- Chaat masala – ½ tsp
- Amchur Powder – ½ tsp
- Dash of Paprika for each plate
- Chopped Cilantro – 3 to 4 tbsps.
Prep – Work:
Preparing channa dal:
- You can use stored bough garbanzo beans. In that case, wash them well and take about ¼ cup.
- If you want to prepare it traditionally, you can soak the dried garbanzo beans overnight and pressure cook them for up to 3 whistles and once it is cooled down, set aside ¼ cup of dal. The remaining can be used for chole preparation. J
Preparing Yogurt Mix:
- Beat the yogurt and add the chaat masala and amchur powder and mix it well.
Misc.:
- Boil the potato in you preferred way and coarsely mash them.
- Chop the onions, tomatoes and cilantro.
Assembling:
- In a plate or bowl, take upto 4 to 5 papadis.
- Now add the boiled potatoes, chopped tomatoes, onions and cilantro.
- The drizzle the spiced yogurt mix and then some more sev, onion and cilantro.
- Add a dash of paprika towards the end. Here is the assembling video.
That’s it. Yummy dahi papdi chaat is ready. :-)
Notes:
- Instead of papdi, you can use tortilla chips or even ritz crackers.
- Adjust the spices, salt and chaat masalas as per your preference.
- Sprouted moog dal can be used as a topping too.
📖 Recipe
Dahi Papdi Chaat | Dahi Papri Chaat
Ingredients
- Papdis - 10
- Potato - 1
- Chopped Tomato - 1
- Chopped Onion - ¼ cup
- Boiled Channa Dal - ¼ cup
- Sweet Chutney - 2 tsps for each plate
- Mint Chutney - 2 tsps for each plate
- Yogurt - ½ cup
- Sev - handful
- Chaat masala - ½ tsp
- Amchur Powder - ½ tsp
- Dash of Paprika for each plate
- Chopped Cilantro - 3 to 4 tbsps.
Instructions
Prep – Work
Preparing channa dal
- You can use stored bough garbanzo beans. In that case, wash them well and take about ¼ cup.
- If you want to prepare it traditionally, you can soak the dried garbanzo beans overnight and pressure cook them for up to 3 whistles and once it is cooled down, set aside ¼ cup of dal. The remaining can be used for chole preparation.
Preparing Yogurt Mix
- Beat the yogurt and add the chaat masala and amchur powder and mix it well.
Misc.
- Boil the potato in you preferred way and coarsely mash them.
- Chop the onions, tomatoes and cilantro.
Assembling
- In a plate or bowl, take upto 4 to 5 papadis.
- Now add the boiled potatoes, chopped tomatoes, onions and cilantro.
- The drizzle the spiced yogurt mix and then some more sev, onion and cilantro.
- Add a dash of paprika towards the end.
- That’s it. Yummy dahi papdi chaat is ready. :-)
Notes
Adjust the spices, salt and chaat masalas as per your preference.
Sprouted moog dal can be used as a topping too.
I am not a nutritionist. The nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. It varies depending upon the product types or brands.
Mouth-watering!! Want to grab those plates from the screen!!! yummmm!
:-) Thankooo
Dahi papdi chaat looks so inviting. Nice job in the video.
Thanks a lot Sapana.
Wow I am simply drooling here!..and you have a video too…
:-) Thankoo.
I always end my chaat eating spree with dahi papdi chaat. This is just not fair that we get to see these beauties and not taste them :)
he he come over here.. we can taste them together.
What a gorgeous looking plate of chaat is that! All your chaat posts are making me super hungry
:-) Thanks Sowmya.
Tempting and addictive papdi chaat.
Thanks :-)
I second Suma’s observation. You video is great. Loved the chaat.
Thanks much!!!
This post is making me crave for papri chaat right away!!
:-) Come over we can make it again.
You seemed as nimble as a chaatwaala because of the fast motion of the video. :))
That is one more drool worthy chaat.
he he lol.. thanks sums
Can i get a plate of this irresistible dahi papdi chaat, omg everytime i visit your space i seriously feel hungry. Tempting chaat again.
Thanks Priya.. come over here plzzz.
Mouthwatering chaat. The pictures are drool worthy.
:-) Thanks Harini.
that was instant made cool snack. This snack sounds to have optimum taste. The recipes sounds to be very interesting
Thanks :-)
Yummy and droolicious chat
Thanks shebang. :-)
Now I am craving for some papdi chat. That was a nice video…
Thanks Gayathri.
Lovely tempting chat and the quick video is excellent !i wish you could have passed that bowl to me:))
Thanks a lot Vaishali.. I wish I could pass that bowl too.
Lovely tea time snack !!! Enjoy
Thanks Alboni.
Yummy looking dahi papdi chaat,makes me drool..
Thanks Nalini.
Excellent. Mouth watering and superb presentation…
Thanks much Jeena and welcome here. :-)
U surely got our attention with all these chaats !! This is one of my personal fav !
:-) he he thanks kalyani
Dahi papdi chaat looks yummy! That is a nice video of assembling the chaat.
:-) Thanks Usha