Roasted Peanut Salad / Roasted Peanut Chaat

Roasted Peanut Salad is healthy, satisfying, protein-packed, nutritious, filling, and refreshing. This delicious vegan salad is Indian-style, flavorful, and tastes just like a chaat!

This Roasted Peanut Chaat recipe is super easy and comes together within a few minutes! It can be served as an appetizer, salad, side dish, or mid-day snack.

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• About Roasted Peanut Salad
• Why You Will Love This Salad
• Ingredients
• How To Make Roasted Peanut Chaat
• Serving and Storing Suggestions
• Helpful Tips
• More Salad Recipes
• You May Like More Healthy Recipes
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About Roasted Peanut Salad

I am a huge fan of peanuts and love eating roasted and salted peanuts. When I was in India, my father used to bring freshly roasted peanuts in the evening. And we munched them after dinner while watching TV.

And I still have a habit of having a handful of peanuts when I need a quick and healthy snack. But with the same peanuts, we can make this filling but delicious salad or chaat.

This recipe of Roasted Peanut Chaat is vegan and without onion and garlic. I have added a few vegetables to make it healthier and more nutritious. However, you can add your choice of vegetables and spices to make it your favorite!

Why You Will Love This Salad

• It is healthy, satisfying, filling, and protein-packed.
• Making the Roasted Peanut Salad is easy and quick.
• The recipe is vegan, Indian-style, and without onion and garlic.
• This salad is delicious, flavorful, and tastes like a chaat.
• It can be served as an appetizer, side dish, salad, or mid-day snack.

Ingredients

1. Roasted Peanuts: For making this salad, use high-quality, lightly salted, and crunchy roasted peanuts. If you do not want to use store-bought peanuts, you can roast raw peanuts on low heat, stirring continuously, until crunchy. Then remove the skin and use them for the recipe.
2. Vegetables: I have added finely chopped celery, green pepper, and tomatoes. But you can add other vegetables such as carrots, cucumber, or red cabbage.
3. Green Chili: I have added a small green chili to make the salad mildly spicy. But you can skip it, remove the seeds from the chili, and then finely chop it. Instead of green chili, you can add jalapeno pepper or add more red chili powder.
4. Oil: Oil will help to coat the spices to peanuts, and we need only about a teaspoon. I have used olive oil, but you can use any cooking oil.
5. Spices: I have used turmeric powder, red chili powder, roasted cumin powder, and chaat masala. Add the spices to your taste. Also, you can add more spices, such as ground black pepper, amchur powder, or coriander powder.
6. Salt: If using salted peanuts, mix all the ingredients, taste, and only add salt as required.
7. Coriander Leaves: Fresh coriander leaves provide lots of flavors to this chaat, do not skip it. If you like, you can also add finely chopped mint leaves.
8. Lemon Juice: It provides tangy and fresh flavors to the salad. Add lemon juice according to your taste.

How To Make Roasted Peanut Chaat

• Add roasted peanuts, chopped celery, green pepper, tomatoes, and green chili in a large bowl, and stir well to mix.
• You can skip green chili if you want or remove the seeds to make the salad less spicy.

• Add oil, turmeric powder, red chili powder, cumin powder, and chaat masala.
• Mix well, taste, and add salt as required. 

• Add chopped coriander leaves, squeeze lemon juice to taste, and mix well. 

• Let the salad rest for 5-10 minutes and then serve.

Serving and Storing Suggestions

• Serve the roasted peanut salad as a snack, side dish, or appetizer. If you like extra zingy salad, you can squeeze more lemon juice before serving.
• Add some Mint Coriander Chutney and tamarind chutney to make it a delicious chaat.
• Sprinkle some fine Sev and pomegranate seed on top of the salad before serving.
• This salad is best served soon after making it. But if you have leftover salad, store it in the refrigerator for a day. The peanuts will become soft, but the salad will still be delicious.

Helpful Tips

• Peanuts: Instead of roasted peanuts, boiled peanuts can also be used. Or roast the raw peanuts on low-medium heat until they get crunchy. Then, remove the skin and use them for the salad.
• Chaat Masala: It adds a lot of flavors to the salad as it is a blend of various spices. So please do not skip it; it is readily available in Indian grocery stores. But somehow, if you can not use it, add other spices to the salad, such as asafoetida, ground black pepper, and dry mango powder.
• Add-Ins: You can also add green and tamarind chutney to this chaat. Also, sprinkle some fine Sev and pomegranate seeds for more flavor and texture. You can also add some finely chopped mint leaves if you like.
• Make-Ahead: In advance, you can prepare all the elements and toss them together right before serving.

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