Diwali / Deepavali ( festival of lights) was here and neighbors brought in a sweets and snacks. Chivda was one among other snacks that is made for diwali and shared with friends and neighbors . This is a traditional maharastrian snack, made during festive times. Even otherwise you can make chivda, store it in air tight containers and snack on it, when ever you want to. Ingredients
6 cups - Thin Poha / Rice flakes
1/2 cup - Roasted unsalted ground nuts
1/2 cups - Roasted dalia / puttukadalai
2 tsp - Mustard seeds
2 tsp - Coriander seeds
2 tsp - Fennel seeds
1 tsp - Jeera / Cumin
6 to 8 - Green chilies, chopped
1/4 cup - Curry leaves
1/2 to 3/4 tsp - Turmeric powder
1 to 1.5 tbsp - Sugar
About 1/2 cup - Vegetable oil
Salt to taste
Method
1 ) In a big kadai / wok, dry roast rice flakes in batches on medium heat. Rice flakes will start curling up a bit and will get crisp. Take off kadai and transfer into a big plate. If the ground nuts are not roasted then dry roast ground nuts till done and transfer to another plate to cool. Now add puttukadai into the kadai and lightly warm it. Transfer to the same plate ground nut is in.
2 ) Now heat oil in the kadai, add mustard and allow it to pop, then add coriander seeds, fennel, jeera, green chili, curry leaves and let the coriander seed brown lightly. Then add ground nut, puttukadalai, turmeric powder and stir for a second on low heat. Then add salt to taste and mix in well in oil, then add rice flakes and stir in well from all sides and mix all the ingredients well.Turn the stove off, then add sugar and mix in well.
Serve with tea and snack on some chivda.
Note - You can add dried coconut /copra flakes to this mixture, after lightly roasting it. Also sev can be mixed after the chivda is made.
Go easy , when adding salt..too much of salt will spoil the taste.
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Looks very nice and new to me..will surely give at try
Hi,you have got nice and healthy recipes in your blog.Neat space for people to adore the recipes.
I am gng to try this soon..looks simple n delicious..my dad n Dh brought home a big bag of thin poha instead of buying the thick variety...thanks for the chivda recipe :)
Good one Pravs..I am bookmarking it to try sometime. My friend used to make this one :-) How did your Diwali go?
Hmmm...yummy snack!
Yumm, delicous and beautiful.
Hi pravs...u got a lovely blog...chivda is my all time fav snack...and lovely click too
This is my all time fav. Looks so good. YUM! Love to have it with evening tea...
I love this snack but never attempted to make it...Just followed your recipe and it turned out soo well. I wanted to say Thank you, and I will be posting some Diwali preps in my home in Australia pics on my blog - would love to have your visit there. :)
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