Easiest Way to Prepare Delicious Chewda

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Easiest Way to Prepare Delicious Chewda Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Chewda. What is your cup of tea? From lip smacking theplas, aachaari mathris to fudgy brownies. East or west, home food is the best!

Tropical Heat Kenyan Chevda is a savory snack mix made primarily from Kenyan potatoes, which are reputed to be the sweetest in the world.

The potatoes are carefully sourced and nurtured in Kenya, securing the livelihood of thousands of farmers in the region.

Chivda is the most savored Indian Snack recipe of all time.

You can cook Chewda using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Prepare 4 cups of thick chivda, poha (approx half KG packet).
It’s 4 tablespoons of oil.
Prepare 1 tsp of asafoetida/ hing.
It’s 2 teaspoon of mustard seeds (rai/sarson).
It’s 2 teaspoon of cumin seeds (zeera).
Prepare 4 of green chilies (cut big pieces if you dont want spicy so they can be removed later).
Prepare 15-20 of curry leaves.
Prepare 1 of cupful peanuts.
It’s 3/4 cup of roasted chana dal/ chutney dal.
It’s 1 tbsp of sesame seeds.
You need 1/2 cup of dry coconut sliced in long pieces.
It’s 1 teaspoon of turmeric powder (haldi).
It’s 2-3 teaspoon or as per taste of salt.
It’s 1/2 teaspoon of citric acid / nimbu satva or one can use amchur powder instead.
You need 1 teaspoon of sugar to balance all spices.

This sweet yet savory snack recipe is prepared with fried cashews, golden raisins, rice poha, peanuts and coconut slices.

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Roast the chivda in a big wok preferable kadhai for 5-10 minutes or in microwave oven for 5 minutes stirring in between. In microwave make sure to take it out in between else it will burn from center of pot. Roasting is done to give crunch to pohe. one can roast in solar cooker to if available..
Keep it aside to cool properly in flat plate..
Now in same wok/ kadhai heat oil and then add hing then mustard seeds and cumin seeds till they crackle..
Next add curry leaves and green chilies and fry them for a minute till it changes colour..
Next add peanuts and then roasted chana/ chutney dal, and at last coconut. coconut is added at last to save it from burning. also add sesame seeds at this point and fry a bit..
Stir fry properly and now add salt and turmeric stir for few seconds, if need spicy taste add 1 teaspoon of red chilli powder..
Add roasted chivda/ pohe and mix it well. Add sugar and citric acid keep steering in order to mix all spices uniformly..
Turn off the heat and Chivda is ready, but please consume it after cooling as hot chivda will not be very crunchy and also peanuts and dal will burn the tongue..
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Tips :.
Thin/ patal pohe is the specialty of Maharashtra and MP, but any poha can be used for the preparation.

Chivda or Poha Chivda is a quick and easy tea time snack made with poha (flattened rice), dry fruits, peanuts, and spices.

Chivda is a popular Indian snack mix made with flattened rice also known as poha, spices, curry leaves and nuts.

It is eaten all-round the year as a tea time snack.

Chivda is also made for festivals like Diwali, ganesh Chaturthi and holi.

It can be made with cornflakes, cereals, rolled oats or even with makhana.