Name: Bengali Fruit Chaat
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper; ¼ tsp black salt (kala namak) (optional); 4 kiwi fruit, peeled and sliced; 200 g/7 oz strawberries, sliced; 1 large mango, peeled and flesh cut into small chunks; 1 orange or 2 clementines, peeled and segmented; 1 pineapple, peeled and cored, flesh cut into small chunks; ¼ tsp chilli powder (optional); ½ tsp chaat masala; juice of 1 lime

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Meat Free Mowgli

By Nisha Katona

Published 2022

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So much more than fruit salad, a fruit chaat elevates fruit to another dimension with a gently spiced dressing. It might sound counterintuitive, but chaat masala, which is slightly salty and tart, enhances the flavour of any fruit it meets. This tangy salad is very popular in both India and Pakistan and this is my Bengali version. You can play around with the combination of fruits to suit what’s in season – I also like to add chopped apple, or some melon when I can get a nice, sweet,