Chana Salad Recipe
The Chana Salad is a fresh recipe with crisp apples, colorful sweet potatoes, juicy grape tomatoes, and white chana. The dressing for this salad is made with a tamarind base infused with jaggery and walnut oil with a hint of ginger. This salad comes together in a few minutes, can be customized for your palate, and can be refrigerated for a few days, so it can be made ahead of time!
Equipment
- 1 pressure cooker, by hand
Ingredients
For the salad:
- 1 cup chana cooked, drained
- 1 apple chopped
- 1 purple sweet potato cooked, peeled and cubed
- 4 sprig coriander fine chopped
- 5 Asian shallot chopped
- 6 grape tomato quartered
- ½ tsp fresh ginger minced
- 1 Thai green chili deseeded, minced
- ¼ tsp salt
For the dressing:
- 2 tbsp tamarind pulp
- ½ tbsp powdered jaggery
- ¼ tsp chili powder
- ¼ tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp walnut oil
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1½ tbsp walnut chopped
Instructions
How to make the dressing:
- Mix the ingredients for the dressing in a bowl.
How to make the salad:
- Mix the shallots, grape tomatoes, green chili, cilantro and salt in a bowl.
- In a mixing bowl, add the cooked chana and toss in the apple and the tomato mixture.
- Now, add the cooked sweet potato and walnuts. Mix them well.
- Drizzle the tamarind dressing and mix again. Serve warm or refrigerated.
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Notes
- Please feel free to customize the salad with your choice of other veggies. Sweet potatoes and chana should not be overcooked.
- If serving the salad warm, just heat the chana and then add all the other ingredients.
Nutrition
Calories: 186kcalCarbohydrates: 33gProtein: 7gFat: 3gSaturated Fat: 0.3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.5gSodium: 210mgPotassium: 154mgFiber: 11gSugar: 8gVitamin A: 331IUVitamin C: 5mgCalcium: 78mgIron: 2mg
