Chaat masala is the finishing dust that makes street food taste like street food. Amchur, black salt, cumin and asafoetida, and it does not go anywhere near a pan.

Sprinkle it on at the end. That is the entire technique.

Use it on fruit, on chaat, over fried potatoes, on grilled corn, in raita, on a plate of sliced onion, and on chips if you want to understand what it is for. The black salt is what makes it taste like nothing else.

On the spice shelf at Curry Corner, North Melbourne.