Yeah, yeah, almond butter toast. What else is new? Allow me to introduce you to the genius add-on of Indian cuisine’s pungent, MSG-like spice blend, chaat masala, which turns an ordinary breakfast into an umami-filled salt-and-spice bomb that tastes like the most craveable nut mix in toast form. Just be doubly sure that you’re using *unsalted* almond butter, as the chaat masala is already salted. Tip: Turn this into an appetizer—try the chaat masala–almond butter combo on rye crackers.
Excerpted from Indian-ish © 2019 by Priya Krishna with Ritu Krishna. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Hear Chef Maneet Chauhan on her love of chaats on this episode of our food-meets-music podcast Counterjam. —Food52
Featured in: 3 Indian-ish Toasts for Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner. —The Editors
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