These Aloo Chana Chaat Tartlets have a savory tart shell filled with spicy potato and chickpea chaat. It’s an amazing dish that is great to serve as an appetizer, side dish or as a snack.
For the final savory bake this week, I made these delicious Aloo Chana Chaat Tartlets. They sound so fancy when described like that, but they basically our very own Indian crackers topped with spicy and addictive chaat.
I am a big fan of Great British baking show and binge watch it on Netflix all the time. Recently my 6 year old also caught the bug and she watches the show even without. As I was thinking of doing savory baked for this week, I saw this recipe being made on the show by an Indian contestant Rahul. I love chaat and this seemed to be a delicious fusion dish with crispy baked tart filled with yummy chaat.
The tart shell is pretty easy to make. It uses all purpose flour and chickpea flour (besan) and flavored with ajwain. To keep the recipe vegan, I used butter flavored coconut oil in the crust. This can be subbed with shortening or butter. My crust turned out buttery, flaky and delicious.
I could probably just eat the crust and call it a day. But then we still have even more deliciousness going into the recipe – spicy and tangy aloo-Chana chaat. In the original recipe, Rahul made a plum chutney to go over the tart. I was lazy, so simply used store bought sweet chutney. You can use sweet mango chutney too, if you have it.
All in all this is a delicious baked fusion dish that is sure to wow everyone with its lovely flavors. Make them smaller in a mini muffin tin and serve them as appetizers. They are great as a snack or as a light meal as well.
I am so excited to tell you guys that my blog is on Brand Ballot’s ‘Top 150 food blogs’ list. Thank you Brand Ballot for including Cook’s Hideout on your list along with some amazing food bloggers. A very big thanks to the BM group and Valli for being the motivation to keep this blog going.
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Aloo Chana Chaat Tartlets
Ingredients
For the Crust:
- 1¼ cups all purpose flour
- ¼ cup Chickpea flour besan
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp turmeric
- ¼ tsp Carom Seeds (Ajwain)
- ¼ tsp chili powder
- 1/3 cup Butter flavored Coconut oil (or Shortening or butter)
- 1~2 tbsp Cold Water
For the Aloo-Chana Chaat Filling:
- 1 tbsp Oil
- 1 tsp Ginger+garlic paste
- 2 Medium Potatoes, boiled and diced
- 15oz. can of Chickpeas, rinsed and drained (1½ cooked chickpeas)
- 1 Small Onion, finely chopped
- 2 Green Chilies, chopped
- 1 Medium Tomato, chopped
- ½~1 tsp Chili powder (adjust as per taste)
- ½ tsp chaat masala
- ¼ tsp Ground Cumin
- ½ tsp Ground Coriander
- 1~2 tsp lemon juice
- To taste salt
Other Ingredients:
- ½ cup Sweet Tamarind Chutney
- As needed Green Chutney, for serving
Instructions
Make the Pastry for the Crust:
- Combine the flours, salt, turmeric, carom seeds and chili powder in a mixing bowl. Add the coconut oil/ shortening/ butter and rub with fingers to form fine crumbs. Add cold water a little at a time to form dough.
- Divide the dough into 6 equal pieces. Roll them on lightly floured surface into 5" circles. Place the dough circle into 4" tart pan; gently press into the base and the fluted sides. Remove excess dough from the edges and refrigerate the tart pans for 10 minutes.
- In the mean time, preheat the oven to 400°F.
- Line the chilled tart pans with aluminum foil squares and fill them with beans or rice or pie weights. Blind bake for 10 minutes, then remove the beans/ rice or weights and bake for another 5 minutes or until the crust is lightly golden. Remove the tart pans from the oven and set aside. Keep the oven on.
Make Aloo-Chana Chaat:
- Heat oil in a skillet; add onions and cook till they are turning lightly brown around the edges, about 4~5 minutes.
- Add the ginger+garlic paste, chaat masala, ground cumin, coriander and cook for 1 minute. Add the chopped tomato, chickpeas and cooked potato. Cook on low heat for 5~7 minutes. Season with salt.
- Sprinkle some water if the mixture looks too dry. Using the back of the wooden spoon, mash some of the chickpeas to break them up. Stir in lemon juice.
Make the Chaat Tartlets:
- Spoon about 1tbsp of sweet chutney onto each tart shell, divide the chaat equally over the top of the chutney. Bake for 5 minutes to warm everything through.
- Remove the tartlets from the pan and serve warm with green chutney and/ or raita on the side. Enjoy!!
Vaishali Sabnani
Congratulations Pavani ! It’s a great achievement to be featured among the top few !
And these tarts – they are just my kinds , the chaat looks so so yum , I would add some thin sev and some pomegranate pearls too .. oh just wanting to pick this from the screen !
Claudia Lamascolo
I personally love anything in a crust and savory is a new one for me. This is over the top creative and I need some of this right now!
Priya Suresh
Omg, hard to take my eyes from your tartlets, how tempting and protein rich its looks. Absolutely droolworthy. Aloo channa chaat tartlets looks alluring.
Karyl Henry
I don’t like the cooking competition shows, but when I visited my aunts in Canada last year they were obsessed with it, and I quickly got hooked! I love that you made this savory tart, and it looks really delicious. I’m always looking for new ways to use chickpeas, and this is it
Catalina
These are so perfect for a party appetizer. Everyone will love them! I should try to make them soon!
Cheese Curd In Paradise
These look lovely, and a great way to eat a hearty dish. I love that this could be made as an appetizer or a meal- can’t wait to try it.
Rafeeda - The Big Sweet Tooth
I shamelessly stretched my hands to pick up one and then suddenly like a jhatka realized that it was inside the screen and not on my table… buhuhu! Those tarts look so amazing, I could just bite into them and have all that you have baked!
Gayathri Kumar
That is so beautiful Pavani. he tart recipe with Indian flavours sounds amazing and that chickpea filling is to die for. Totally an yum dish.
April
I think this could be one of the new appetizers on my holiday table! It looks delicious, sounds easy and tastes spicy – just what I need! In fact, spicy potato is my most recent weak spot so this recipe is perfect!
Thomas Paul
I love everything that has to do with potatoes… but this recipe is so strange to me. I’ve never seen anything like this before. I’m so intrigued!
I hope I get motivated to make this some day.
Natalie
I absolutely love the flavors in this dish. It looks so delicious too. I can’t wait to make this for my guests and my family.
Sharmila
That Tart Shell looks super flaky!! The filling is super drooling.
Nalini
Congrats Pavani,such great fusion recipe.Wish to have some
Sharmila Kingsly
Usually i have used sweet toppings with pies and this yummy savory twists looks really tempting. Nice thought..
Suma Gandlur
My daughter though doesn’t step into kitchen, watches all cooking shows she can , including that British show.These tartlets sound so inviting and tempting. I know what I am making this weekend. 🙂
Kalyani
Congrats on being featured in that list, Pavani – you totally deserve it.. I love savoury bakes, and this is very tempting Pavani ! that show isnt featured in the netflix here in my country, I guess 🙂 my little one has been watching masterchef australia here with me..
And I have your vegan recipe to try this… and guess the fillings are endless.
priya
looks and sounds delicious! Your posts are always easy to understand and Helpful. Thank You,
Renu
I too love watching GBBO and had loved this series specially for Rahul. The Chaat tartlets is mouthwatering and you reminded me that I had too shortlisted this one. Awesome share and congratulations on featuring in top 150.
Neetu Shukla
It is a very different chat version i have ever read. I need to try this one. It is very unique in terms of presentation also.
I can use these tartlets and fill other fillings in it to make different dishes. Thanks a lot.
And well congrats Pavani! It’s a great achievement
Srivalli
Congrats on the listing Pavani, you surely deserve it…these tartlets look so sinful and inviting, I would love to bake these for evening snacks!