Chana salad with curd/ yogurt, sour cream and simple ingredients for a filling, delicious salad. You can skip sour cream and use yogurt fully.
I wanted to try a salad with a creamy yogurt dressing for long time. When I went for vacation to Dubai, I loved the sour cream dip with pepper.
I used to have cucumber with it along with hummus, pita bread. Liked the cucumber which was having less water content than the one we get here. It had a pleasant flavor that I used to have as a kid.
After coming here, I wanted the same one, so for a change tried the Japanese cucumber and it was similar to what we had there.
Hereafter I will buy only these Japanese cucumber for a while. I used this cucumber for the salad and totally loved it.
Simple and fewest ingredients that we have in our pantry for this salad. I loved this to have this summer too. Check out my aloo chana chaat.
Recipe card
Chana salad, chickpea salad
Ingredients
- 1 cup Chana/ chickpea cooked
- 2 tablespoon Sour cream
- 2 tablespoon Plain yogurt
- ½ cup Cucumber chopped
- ½ cup Onion chopped
- ½ teaspoon Black pepper crushed
- 2 tablespoon Coriander leaves chopped
- 1 teaspoon Lemon juice
Instructions
- Place thick yogurt, sour cream, pepper, lemon juice and salt in a bowl. Mix well smooth.
- Add cooked chana, chopped onion, cucumber and mix well.
Notes
- Cut cucumber and onion same size as the chana.
- Serve as soon as you mix.
- Use greek yogurt or thick hung curd for rich taste.
How to make chana salad:
- Place thick yogurt, sour cream, pepper, lemon juice and salt in a bowl. Mix well smooth.
- Add cooked chana, chopped onion, cucumber and mix well.
Serve immediately.
SathiyaPrabha Palanisamy says
Can we prepare with out cream...
kavitha says
Wow. Looks yummy. If I pack for lunch say 4 hours before will it be nice?
Raks Kitchen says
It will leave out water. Can mix and eat, no issues. But you can add something else instead of onion.
Raks Kitchen says
Sure, use hung curd 4 tbsp for this recipe in place of 2 tbsp sour cream + 2 tbsp curd.
kavitha says
Ok thanks
Unknown says
Instead of channa can i have something else?
SriAndal says
saw it, made it, and relished it.. nice use of yogurt, i used only greek yogurt instead of sour cream and added chopped carrots and feta cheese for a greek twist. thanks for sharing the recipe...loved it..
Aradhana says
This looks yummy. My daughter is a big fan of chaana salad. I'll try to make it this way. Thanks for sharing.
Shweta Bhargava says
How do we make sour cream at home or can we skip it since I am diabetic .
Raks Anand says
You can replace with same amount hung curd itself.
Mithushi says
Awesome recipe !!! My hubby loved it .
Raks Anand says
Thanks a lot for your feedback 🙂