Black chick peas salad (kala chana masala chat)

Ingredients

• 2 cups Black Chick peas
• Water to soak the Chick peas
• 4 cups of water to cook the chick peas
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 tea bags
• 2 teaspoon salt
• 1 white/yellow onion finely chopped
• 1 red onion finely chopped
• 3 spring onions chopped
• 4 Roma tomatoes finely chopped
• 1-2 table spoon of Cilantro leaves finely chopped
• Juice of 4 fresh limes
• 1 teaspoon salt or to taste
• 1 teaspoon black salt
• 1 teaspoon Cayenne pepper
• 1 teaspoon Mango powder
• 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1 tablespoon roasted cumin seeds powder

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Preparation

• Wash the the chick peas with water.
• Soak the chick peas overnight in water.
• Next day add salt, baking soda and pressure cook them with teabags.
• Let the pressure cooker cool.
• Take out the chick peas, drain all the water, discard the tea bags.
• Transfer the boiled chick peas in a bowl.
• Add chopped onions, tomatoes, cilantro, all the spices, lime juice and mix well. You can adjust spices and ingredients depending on your taste.
• You can also add one chopped fresh Serrano peppers to this to give some extra kick.
• You can serve this right away, for extra crunch sprinkle Sev on individual serving of this yummy salad.
• You can make the same salad with canned white Chick peas but the taste of the black chick peas is totally different that that if Garbanzo beans.