India
Poha Chivda Recipe
Prep Time | 5 minutes |
Cook Time | 20 minutes |
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Ingredients
- 1 cup red or white poha
- ½ cup Peanuts
- ½ cup roasted chana
- ½ cup cashews
- ¼ cup dry coconut slices chopped
- 2 tbsp Golden Raisins
- 10-12 Curry Leaves
- ¼ tsp black mustard seeds
- ½ tsp Cumin seeds
- 1 tsp white sesame seeds
- ¼ tsp red chili powder
- ¼ tsp Turmeric powder
- pinch a generousof asafetida
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp olive oil
- Salt to taste
- Oil for deep frying
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Instructions
- Rinse the curry leaves, cashews and raisins.
- Dry them in a clean kitchen towel.
- Heat oil for deep-frying in a wok.
- Take a fine sieve with a handle.
- Place half of the poha or rice flakes in it.
- Immerse the sieve with the poha in the medium hot oil and fry till they expand and become crisp. Don’t brown them.
- Remove the fried poha on a plate lined with paper towel.
- Place the sieve on a dry plate.
- Add the remaining poha in it and again keep the sieve with the poha in the hot oil and fry till they are crisp.
- Drain them in the same plate.
- Next add the chana dal in the sieve and fry them for some seconds till they become crisp. Drain on another plate.
- In the same way fry the peanuts, cashew nuts, raisins, coconut slices and curry leaves.
- Keep all of them separately in a same plate or in separate plates or bowls, lined with paper towels.
- Heat 1 tsp oil in another pan.
- First add the mustard seeds and let them pop.
- Then add the cumin and sesame seeds. Let the sesame seeds pop and change color.
- Turn the stove off. Add the turmeric powder, red chili powder, and asafetida.
- Stir and now add sugar and salt.
- Turn the stove on and add all the fried ingredients - poha, peanuts, raisins, cashews and chana dal. Stir well.
- Crush the fried and crisp curry leaves and add them to the mixture.
- Stir well and roast for 2-3 minutes on a low flame. Continue to stir in between.
- Check the taste and then add more salt or sugar or red chili powder if required.
- Let the chivda mixture cool.
- Serve.
Recipe Notes
Store the chivda mixture in an air tight container.