Boiled peanut chat recipe | How to make kadlekai chat | Shenga chat
By Latha on March 19th, 2020
Boiled peanut chat recipe explained with step by step picture and a video. Boiled peanut chat or beyisida shenga chat is an easy and healthy snacks recipe. Shenga chat is also called as kadlekai chat or nelagadale chat. This is a very simple and quick chat recipe.
Boiled peanut chat recipe is a street food. You can find people selling this near beach or many other tourist spots. You can use roasted peanuts as well. You can find the roasted peanuts chat recipe here. I have not soaked the peanuts or shenga here. And hence I made nearly 6 whistles to cook the peanuts until soft. However you can reduce the cooking time by soaking the shenga or kadlekai for 2 - 3 hours.
This is a very tasty chat or evening snacks recipe. You can get creative and change it as per your taste. Like you can add chopped cucumber or grated coconut or grated radish etc.,
If you are looking for more chat or street food recipes then check my Mangalore churumuri recipe, girmit recipe, nargis mandakki recipe, sukha girmit recipe. And you can find more snacks recipes under my Snacks section.
I have made a video on this recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look.
Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 10 min
Serves: 2
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1 cup peanut or kadlekai or shenga
- 1 finely chopped onion
- 1 finely chopped tomato
- 1 grated carrot
- 2 tbsp finely chopped coriander Leaves
- 1 green chili finely chopped (optional - for extra spiciness)
- 1/2 - 1 tsp red chilli powder
- 1/2 tsp chat masala
- 1/4 tsp cumin powder
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- Salt to taste
Instructions for making boiled peanut chat:
- Take peanut or kadlekai in a a pressure cooker.
- Add in 1.5 cups of water.
- Add in a tsp of salt.
- Also add in a pinch of turmeric. Close the lid and cook the peanuts until soft. You can soak the peanuts for faster cooking.
- Make sure peanuts are cooked and are fully soft. This is very important to get good taste and better digestion.
- Next drain the water and take the cooked peanuts in a bowl.
- Add in finely chopped onion, tomato and grated carrot.
- Add in finely chopped chopped green chili and red chilli powder. Adjust both as per your spice level.
- Add in salt, red chili powder, cumin powder and chat masala. You can adjust all these as per your taste.
- Next add in lemon juice. Again adjust the lemon juice as per your taste.
- Finally add in some finely chopped coriander leaves.
- Give a quick mix, serve it and enjoy. You can consume this immediately or after few hours as well.
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