Chat Masala or Chaat Masala
 
 

Recipe:

Roast the cumin and fennel seeds in a hot frying pan separately till they become fragrant.
Mix all the ingredients and grind into a fine powder using a motar & pestel or an electric spice grinder.
Store chat masala in a air-tight bottle and useit when required.

2 tbls. cumin seeds
1 1/2 tsp fennel seeds
1 tbls garam masala
1 tbls amchoor
1 tbls black or regular salt
1 tsp cayenne pepper
1 pinch of asafatida
1/2 tsp ground ginger

Chat or Chaat masala is a masala, or spice mix, used in Pakistani and Indian cuisine. It typically consists of amchoor (dried mango powder), cumin, black salt, coriander, dried ginger, salt, black pepper, asafoetida and capsicum. The ingredients are combined and served on a small metal plate or a banana leaf, dried and formed into a bowl, at chaat carts (especially in Southern-India).
Uses in Cooking: Possible Substitutes:
Chaat masala has a pungent smell and tastes sweet, sour and pungent. It is used to flavour all the popular fast foods of Pakistan and India. It is somewhat of an acquired taste and can be added to all sorts of everyday foods or even eaten on its own. Garam Masala
How it comes:
This Spice is also used in:
This can be bought ready made an Indian spice shop but it is usually made at home when needed.  
Other Uses:
 
 
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