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Chivda Namkeen Recipe

Course Snack
Cuisine Indian
Keyword snack
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings 8
Author Priya Shiva

Ingredients

  • Flattened rice/chivda - 1 cup
  • Peanuts - ½ cup
  • Cashews - ½ cup
  • Raisins - 2 tbsp
  • Curry leaves - 1 sprig
  • Roasted Gram - ¼ cup
  • Salt to taste
  • Red chilli Powder - 1 tsp
  • Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
  • Vegetable Oil for deep frying

Instructions

  1. Heat a frying pan with oil in it. Make sure to check if oil is ready, add few flattened rice to the hot oil. If it puffs up right away, oil is ready for deep frying.
  2. Take a deep slotted ladle and add a fistful of flatteened rice in the ladle. Dip the ladle carefully in the oil. Flattened rice will puff up immediately as the oil is hot.
  3. Drain the excess oil and place the fried flattened rice on a tissue to remove excess oil.
  4. Add 1 tsp cooking oil in a pan and roast peanuts, curry leaves for few minutes on low flame.
  5. Now add some cashews, raisins, roasted gram in the same frying pan and roast till cashews turn light golden brown and keep it aside.
  6. Lower the flame and add turmeric powder, red chilli powder and stir for few seconds.
  7. Now add deep fried flattened rice, salt and mix well. Remove from the flame.
  8. Once the content cools down completely, store the snack in an air-tight container. You can store it for upto 2 weeks in a cool place. Do not refrigerate.

Recipe Notes

You can add 1 tbsp of powdered sugar to give it a sweet and spicy twist. Make sure the curry leaves are cleaned and dry before roasting them.