Sweet Potato Chaat or Shakarkandi ki Chaat is a super simple recipe and it is great alternative to the popular aloo chaat. If you want to avoid potatoes and looking for alternatives, here comes the sweet potato chaat. For aloo chaat, we usually roast or fry the potatoes and toss it with chaat masala and add in the toppings and serve with the dash of lime juice. It’s as simple as that. But for this sweet potato chaat, I boiled them first and cubed them, then tossed them with spices and pan seared until the caramelized crust is formed, making it a guilt free yummy chaat.
I was contemplating if I should try regular aloo chaat or try the alternative sweet potato chaat. I already posted aloo tikki, dabeli which has the potato filling and next week I have couple more recipes coming up which are potato based. Hence I went with sweet potatoes. More or less all chaat recipes call for potatoes in one way or the other. So when there is a recipe where I can replace, potatoes, I didn’t want to miss. But please do not mistake that, I don’t like potatoes. I love potatoes. ;-)
Ok, lets me stop the potato vs sweet potato thing and get back to the recipe. As usual I microwaved the sweet potatoes and removed the peels and cubed them. Before adding it to the pan, I included all the masalas and then roasted them. Finally drizzled some lemon juice and added some chopped cilantro and sev and called it a chaat. That’s it. But you can take this simple chaat to further levels.
- Either you can add the spiced up yogurt like in dahi sev puri and top it up with sev and pomegranate arils.
- You can add plain yogurt and top it up with both green and sweet chutney and yeah of course with onions, sev and cilantro.
I can keep adding ideas to this list. But let me stop here and share what I did,
Ingredients:
- 2 sweet potatoes – approx 2.5 cups cubed
- Chaat masala – 1 tsp
- Jal Jeera Masala – 1 tsp
- Red Chilly Powder – ½ tsp
- Oil – 1 tbsp
- Chopped Cilantro – 1 tbsp
- Lemon Juice – 1 tbsp
- Salt – 1 tsp
- For Garnish
- Sev or Pomegrante seeds (I used Sev)
Steps:
- Wash the sweet potatoes thoroughly and steam them in your preferred way. I, as usual microwaved them in the potato setting. Let it cool and chop them roughly into cubes.
- To these boiled sweet potato cubes, add the chaat masala, jal jeera masala, salt and red chilly powder. Toss them nicely and ensure the masalas are coated nicely.
- Now heat a wide pan or wok and add oil.
- Once the oil is hot, add the masala coated sweet potatoes and in medium flame roast them until they turn brown.
- I charred them nicely like below.
- Turn off the heat and transfer to the serving bowl.
- Now add the lemon juice and garnish it with cilantro and sev.
That’s it. Super simple yummy sweet potato chaat is ready.
Notes:
- Instead of sweet potatoes, aloo or corn can be used too. Steaming them first and roasting helps in less oil consumption.
- We prefer charred sweet potatoes, so I usually let them roast for longer time. But you can adjust the cooking time as per your preference.
- You can garnish this with roasted and crushed peanuts, sev, pomegranate arils and also with sweet chutneys.
- Before serving vaandu, I toss it with ketchup :-)
Sweet Potato Chaat | Shakarkandi ki Chaat
Ingredients
- 2 sweet potatoes - approx 2.5 cups cubed
- Chaat masala - 1 tsp
- Jal Jeera Masala - 1 tsp
- Red Chilly Powder - ½ tsp
- Oil - 1 tbsp
- Chopped Cilantro - 1 tbsp
- Lemon Juice - 1 tbsp
- Salt - 1 tsp
For Garnish
- Sev or Pomegrante seeds I used Sev
Instructions
- Wash the sweet potatoes thoroughly and steam them in your preferred way. I, as usual microwaved them in the potato setting. Let it cool and chop them roughly into cubes.
- To these boiled sweet potato cubes, add the chaat masala, jal jeera masala, salt and red chilly powder. Toss them nicely and ensure the masalas are coated nicely.
- Now heat a wide pan or wok and add oil.
- Once the oil is hot, add the masala coated sweet potatoes and in medium flame roast them until they turn brown.
- I charred them nicely like below.
- Turn off the heat and transfer to the serving bowl.
- Now add the lemon juice and garnish it with cilantro and sev.
- That’s it. Super simple yummy sweet potato chaat is ready.
Notes
We prefer charred sweet potatoes, so I usually let them roast for longer time. But you can adjust the cooking time as per your preference.
You can garnish this with roasted and crushed peanuts, sev, pomegranate arils and also with sweet chutneys.
Before serving vaandu, I toss it with ketchup :-)
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.
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I love these sweet potato chat Srividhya, the last time I made, it was with small quantity and it disappeared in no time!..
We enjoyed it too. :-) Thanks
My daughter will absolutely love it…will try it asap
Thanks Sowmya.
I would love with chutneys and lot of sev on top!! mouthwatering chat!!!
Thanks Priya.
What a healthy and delicious chaat with sweet potato.
Thanks a lot Pavani.
I remember eating sweetened sweet potato cubes as a kid but haven’t tasted the chaat version. It looks inviting.
Thanks :-)
Wow a chaat with sweet potato sounds like an amazing idea! Perfect tea time snack for sure.
Thanks Smruti
I too will prefer this sweet potato chaat to aloo chaat. Lovely recipe.
:-) Thanks Archana.
what a great recipe. My boys love sweet potatoes and this would be a great way to serve them.
Thanks Sandhya
This chaat takes me back to delhi winters n vendors selling this hot yummy snack on food carts along with green steamed cholia near Janpath :)) well done
Thanks Kalyani. I can imagine the winters and this chaat during winters. nothing can beat street food.
Such a tasty looking chaat bowls.Healthy and tasty.
Thanks Sapana :-)
I love sweet potato, but have never tried it in chat form. This looks so yum and a guilt free snack too..
yes.. Thanks and please do try Gayathri.
Amazing Great share… So thoughtful…
Thanks you :-)
rare moments when i love the recipe and find all ingredients handy…will be making this tonight
Great.. Please do try it Pradnya.
We love this chat , but instead of boiling we roadt it , in fact after boiling , just roast on the fire to get a smoky flavor , the chat is absolutely amazing .
Yeah.. it went the other way around. ;-) Thanks Vaishali.
this sweet potato chat looks perfectly tempting
Thanks pa.
Good one. My kids love this. I should try with the spices you used.
Please do try. Thanks. :-)
Nice and guilt free chaat..
yup.. thanks Nalini
Sweet potato chaat is very tempting. I usually boil sweet potato and eat it as is. That’s how we use to eat growing up. This would be a nice variation to that. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
I love the plain boiled sweet potato too.. just wanted to try an alternative usha. Thanks much.
Its been a while i had this sweet potato chaat, too prefect to munch anytime of the day.
Thanks :-)