It is challenging for every mother to meet the dietary requirements of highly active & energetic teens today. She needs to serve them 4 meals a day that satiates their hunger, nourish them adequately, and most importantly please their palate. Since it is almost near to impossible to prepare healthy hearty delicious meals four times a day, it is a good idea to prepare a dish that can be reused for the next meal. Now I have prepared yellow peas ragda (curry), served delicious cornflakes chaat as an evening snack, and serve the same ragda with chappathi or poori for dinner.

How one dish can be used for two meals:
Similarly, the dough used for making banana bread for breakfast can also be used to make banana cupcakes in the evening, and the batter used for making pesarattu in the morning can be used for making paniyaram in the evening. Furthermore, we can use the sambar prepared for lunch as an accompaniment for idli or dosa & mor-kulambu for adai at the night.

Indian Chaat
Chaat is the most popular street food enjoyed by people of all ages, and hence we can easily find small eateries or fast food joints in every nook & corner. It is a savory snack typically made by mixing a long list of ingredients of varied textures & flavors like pav (bread), puri (deep-fried bread), patties, ragda (curry), spice powders, chutney (sauce), sev (crunchy noodles), fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, etc.

Since chaat recipe requires a comprehensive list of ingredients, people generally prefer to pay a visit to such an eatery rather than making it at home. Nevertheless, I like to prepare chaat at home for 2 reasons: 1) I can make delicious & nutritious chaat by cutting down unnecessary carbs, fats & sugar or replacing them with wholesome ingredients; 2) I can re-use the same curry (ragda) for my next meal also.
Cornflakes Chaat:
Here I have prepared nutritious cornflakes chaat using yellow peas curry, tamarind-dates chutney & mint chutney, replacing deep-fried puri with cornflakes, and garnishing with homemade sev, pomegranate arils, finely chopped apple, onion & coriander leaves. First, let us look into the recipe for yellow peas ragda.
Yellow peas ragda recipe:

Ingredients:
Cooked yellow peas | 1 cup |
Pureed yellow peas | 1/4 cup |
Onion | 1 |
Tomatoes | 3 |
Garlic | 3 pods |
Ginger | 1″ |
Red chilli powder | 2 tsp |
Turmeric powder | 1/2 tsp |
Cumin seeds powder | 1/4 tsp |
Kitchen King masala | 1/2 tsp |
Pav-bhaji masala | 1/2 tsp |
Oil | 1 tsp |
Cumin seeds | 1/2 tsp |
Salt | 1 tsp |

How to prepare ragda:
- Chop the onion, tomatoes, ginger & garlic roughly.
- Microwave them for 5 minutes after sprinkling some water.
- Blitz them until smooth.
- Heat a heavy bottom pan with oil on low flame.
- Add cumin seeds followed by red chilli powder, turmeric powder & cumin seeds powder.
- Saute for few seconds.
- Pour onion tomato mixture followed by pureed peas and stir in to combine.
- Now add cooked peas & pour required water in to the pan and bring it to a boil in high flame.
- Add salt & spice powders and mix well.
- Leave the curry simmering until plating.

Tweaks:
- We can use any other legume namely black eyed peas (karamani), rajma beans, lima beans (mochai), green peas, butter beans, etc. in place of yellow peas.

- I have also prepared ragda using chickpeas (channa). We can serve channa ragda with pav bread as below or serve bread-channa for breakfast along with toasted bread.

- We can also replace yellow peas with mixed vegetables and pureed yellow peas with mashed potato.

- Here I have not added chaat masala into this ragda (but I sprinkled some chaat masala while garnishing the chaat) as I wanted to use this curry for my dinner also.
Cornflakes Chaat Recipe
Now let us assemble all the ingredients below and serve delicious cornflakes chaat.
Ingredients:
Hot ragda |
Corn flakes |
Sev (oma podi) |
Dates-tamarind chutney |
Mint chutney |
Chaat masala |
Finely chopped apple, onion, & coriander leaves |
Pomegranate arils |

How to serve corn flakes chaat:

Variations:
I prefer to add sweet & sour flavors, crunchy texture, and vibrant colors in here, so I like to choose the ingredients accordingly. We can also garnish this chaat with several other ingredients like grated carrot, diced cucumber, chopped tomato, grated raw mango, diced mango fruit, finely chopped guava (koyya pazham), puffed rice (pori), rice flakes (poha or aval), roasted almonds, fried peanuts (or masala peanuts), boiled green peas, etc.
Hi Megala,
I love your idea to use cornflakes. How creative. I made chaat with goldfish crackers and that was fun too. Love your website! Alonna
Thank you. 🙂
I really like this idea. I will try this
Glad to hear this, please let me know how it turned out for you. Thank you.
It turned out great. I used a bit to much spice. Next time i will keep it in mind
My younger son loves chaat preparations. Thank you for the curry and chaat recipe. It will be ideal for this rainy season and I can prepare this at home.
I hope your son likes this version of masala chaat. Thank you.
This looks tasty and nutritious, great substitutions for a healthier version!
Yes, I’m so happy to hear these words from a dietitian. Thanks much, Anna.
Another great recipe. VERY original. I’m drooling. This looks so delicious.
Thank you!
Wow that’s a unique recipe.. I didn’t know this.. will tell my mom to try it..
Thanks! 🙂
love yellow peas
yup vibrant colors these are!
Thank you!
You must be doing a great job Megala.
Thanks!
Sounds lovely! I l’m intrigued with the cornflakes. Does it add a lovely texture?
Yes, I used cornflakes mainly for adding the crunchy texture in here. 🙂
Thank you!
I am thinking about masala. There are so many different kinds of masala. I can find some at stores, but I am not sure which one should be the right one~ ^^
This dish is nice! I feel that it could go with rice as well ~ ^^
Yes, I do agree that it is difficult to identify the right masala when the specific brand of masala is not available.
This curry goes well with naan bread, flatbread or any kind of breads, but if you like to pair it with rice, you can use your regular curry powder itself.
It is so nice to find you showing interests to try my recipes. 🙂 Thanks a million, Lady Oscar!
Thank you! I do find naan bread here! So I will use bread to go with the Chaat dish!
Your recipes are full of compassion and loving kindness. I feel your sincere thoughts and heart while you sharing them~
Thank you, Megala!
You are most welcome! 🙂
Looks delish ?
Thank you! 🙂
Yummy !
Yes, it was! Thanks.
I’m right there with you! I have two teen boys and I feel like a full time grocery-shopper and cook! 🙂
Yes, every mother would feel the same. 🙂 Thank you!
Megala, you posted perfect chat for this rainy season!! Loved the way you have used all ingredients!!
Thank you!
SO many yummy foods!!
Thanks, and thanks for stopping by.
so colorful n tempting ! Nice idea to use cornflakes in chaat ,just love it!!
Yes, thanks Nisha!
Wow, this looks so tempting! Excellent!??
Thanks, Richa!
Great Sharing ??
Thank you! 🙂
Great idea. Looks yummy!!!
Thank you!
I am a big fan of spicy tangy chaat.. this recipe is spot on.. nutritious and yummy!!
Thank you! 🙂
My pleasure ?
The corn flakes sound like a great variety of chaat!
Yes, thanks! 🙂
I’m a huge fan of chaats especially Indian…I can have them anytime of a day?
Love every Chaat u shared? and I never tried cornflakes Chaat and it’s such a nice idea? definitely try it out as I always have cornflakes at home? thanks for sharing?
Yes, I would like to make delicious chaat with easily available ingredients without compromising the taste, and I’m glad you liked it. 🙂
Thank you so much.
(EN) Thanks Megala.?So tasty recipe and I’d like to try it. Did you mean pudina as mint chutney?
(IT) Grazie Megala.?Ricetta così gustosa e mi piacerebbe provarla. Intendevi il pudina come chutney alla menta?
Yes, it is a pudina chutney, and I’m sure you will like this chaat. 🙂
Thanks much, Forthemo!
Perfect for the rainy season, Megala and I will try this at home. On Sunday it will be awesome to eat with nice and hot tea. Thanks so much dear for all your great recipes.
So glad to hear this, thank you so much.
Welcome ?? ? Megala
Welcome Megala always.
You teach me something new with every post! Thank you!
You are too kind & humble. Thanks much, Diane.
Agree with you Megala what you wrote.. moms have to come up with so many different ideas to make meals exciting for kids.. loved your all your ideas and corn flakes chaat look so yumm with tempting Ragda!!
Thank you so much, Swati!
Your kids are so lucky to have you preparing all these delicious meals for them!
Nowadays my son has been pulling my legs that I am cooking for this blog, not for him. 🙂
Thanks much, Tracey, for reading & commenting.
He’s still lucky!
Thanks to WordPress!
Looks temptingly yummy. Will surely try this. Thanks for the share Megala.?
You are most welcome! ?
My, my dear Megala you are making me so hungry!! Thank You for the delicious nourishing dishes you share. LORD, thank You for Megala, and for continuing to bless her 🙂
I’m truly blessed to have you as my friend.? Thanks a ton for your constant support and kind appreciation. ?
You are feeding the world my dear friend, that is a beautiful thing 🙂 🙂
And you are feeding the souls, thats really amazing! 🙂 🙂
Delicious and creative chaat, Megala!
Thank you!
? I too do this many times Megala. Will surely try this.
Will share one of my healthy Pani puri recipe. A mix of grated carrot, onion, sprouted moong, pomegranate, tomatoes, corriander leaves ( choice of veggies is upto you) Add them into the puri with a spoonful of whisked spicy yoghurt and imli chutney. Believe me it tastes yum!
I ‘m a huge fan of chaat foods, your recipe sounds absolutely delicious, and I will surely enjoy the lip- smacking combo of dahi & imli. ? Thank you so much for sharing such an easy healthy tasty recipe.?
My pleasure ☺️
Very helpful post..you are a genius cook dear ?❤?
Ah! Actually I’m not. ?
Thank you so much for the nice comment.
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Fantastic dishes! A great post, Megala!
Thanks, Indira. 🙂