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Chatpate
Tangy puffed rice snack
Chatpate: Kathmandu's tangy puffed rice snack with potato, lime and timur
Chatpate is the snack Kathmandu students buy after school from street carts near Ratna Park and Basantapur: puffed rice tossed in a steel bowl with boiled potato, onion, tomato, cucumber, green chilli, lime and a drizzle of mustard oil, then sprinkled with chilli and tingling timur. It should be sour, salty, hot and crunchy all at once. The mistake is mixing it too early: the puffed rice soaks up the juices within minutes and goes soggy. Chef's tip: get everything chopped and ready, then mix one portion at a time and eat it straight away.
- Total time
- 25 min
- Difficulty
- easy
- Serves
- 4
Ingredients
- 1 potatolarge, about 250 g
- 2 ⅞ oz puffed rice
- 1 red onionsmall, finely chopped
- 1 tomatofinely chopped
- ¼ cucumberfinely chopped
- 1 green chillifinely chopped
- 3 tbsp coriander leaveschopped
- 1 oz roasted peanuts
- 2 tbsp lime juice
- 1 tbsp mustard oil
- ½ tsp red chilli powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 oz sev (crisp gram-flour noodles) (optional)
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Method
0/4 doneStep 1: Boil 1 potato in its skin until a knife slides in easily. Cool under cold water, peel and cut into 1 cm cubes.
15 minStep 2: While it cooks, chop 1 red onion, 1 tomato, ¼ cucumber, 1 green chilli and 3 tbsp coriander leaves and put them in a large bowl with 1 oz roasted peanuts.
Step 3: Add the potato, 2 tbsp lime juice, 1 tbsp mustard oil, ½ tsp red chilli powder, ¼ tsp timur (Sichuan pepper), ground and ½ tsp salt and stir well.
Step 4: Just before eating, tip in 2 ⅞ oz puffed rice and toss quickly until coated. Taste, add more lime or salt if needed, top with 1 oz sev (crisp gram-flour noodles) and serve at once in small bowls or paper cones.
Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 190 kcal
- Protein
- 5 g
- Carbs
- 28 g
- Fat
- 7 g
- Fibre
- 3 g
Nutrition values are estimates.
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Good to know
- How long does chatpate take?
- About 25 minutes in total: 10 minutes to prepare and 15 minutes to cook.
- How many people does it serve?
- 4 as written. Change the servings above the ingredients and every amount scales to match.
- Is it vegan?
- Yes. It has no meat, fish, dairy or eggs.
- What can I use instead of potato?
- Sweet potato, same weight (sweeter, cooks a little faster).
- What can I use instead of puffed rice?
- Any long-grain rice, same amount.
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