Diwali recipes and snacks - aval mixture or poha mixture | Chivda
Actually a simple recipe for Deepavali savoury or as a simple evening snack when we have guests. It is liked by kids and adults alike. It has one more strange use in our family. It is a side dish for sambar rice or rasam rice.
Also called chivda or chivda namkeen recipe in Hindi and Marathi. This I learnt from one of my sisters and she lives in Mumbai. .
Ingredients
Poha, peanuts, fried gram dhal, desiccated coconut in pieces, curry leaves, oil. mustard, green chilles, asafoetida, turmeric powder
Ingredients
Poha, peanuts, fried gram dhal, desiccated coconut in pieces, curry leaves, oil. mustard, green chilles, asafoetida, turmeric powder
- Let us take thin flattened rice or poha also called Aval in Tamil in a big cup as shown
- For this big cup we need one cup each of peanuts, fried gram dhal and dry coconut pieces., some cashews and curry leaves.
- For species we should add mustard, turmeric powder and hing.
- Place a vessel on a stove and dry roast the poha till it becomes crisp
- Add three spoons of oil and fry peanuts. The knob of stove is in sim position
- fry the cashews and desiccated coconut pieces in oil
- Fry the fried gram dhal by adding it to oil . Remove it immediately to avoid overcooking.
- We have to fry green mirch till they turn white in colour
- Next to little oil, add mustard when it splutters add finely chopped green chillies . These chilles also should become white in colour..
- Sprinkle asafoetida after all the ingredients are fried.
- Finally add the poha or flattened rice. Turmeric powder is added now . This is also to ensure that turmeric powder is not over cooked.
- Add salt as per requirement. I add quarter teaspoon of sugar.
- Mix all the ingredients thoroughly
