Aval mixture is a quick snack that you can make anytime either for tea time or for any festival. Aval mixture recipe with step by step pictures for easy understanding and reference.
Aval Mixture is a easy snack that you can make in few mins, just get ready with all your ingredients and fry them one by one, toss it up with your favorite spices and all done…Your poha mixture is ready….that sounds cool right?!
Yesterday night when I was watching a movie and felt like munching something , the snack box was empty but I was reluctant to go make anything just for my sake that instance as I was deep into the movie so the first thing I did today morning is to make this mixture, clicked it too. Now I have a box of evening snacks ready for today.
Aval Mixture also called as Poha Chivda – You can easily make this for Diwali 2014 and share it with your friends and relatives.
Check out Cornflakes Mixture and Madras Mixture Recipe which I posted a yr back.
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Aval mixture recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup thick poha
- 1/8 cup roasted gram dal
- 1/8 cup peanuts
- 1 tsp sesame seeds
- 10 nos cashews
- 1 tbsp raisins
- 15 nos curry leaves
- 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp red chilli powder
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Get ready with all your ingredients.Heat oil, once its hot add fried gram dal and fry till golden brown.Use a strainer to drain excess oil.Add it to tissue paper.Set aside.
- Next fry curry leaves until crisp, drain and set aside.Then fry cashews till golden brown, drain and set aside.Add raisins and fry till it bubbles up, drain and set aside.
- Take your poha, add it to oil and fry till the shh sound ceases, Drain and add it to tissue paper to remove excess oil.
- Add sesame seeds,let it splutter then add required salt red chilli and turmeric powders.Now collect everything and drain the excess oil using a tissue paper.
- After draining and removing excess oil, mix everything together and toss it well.Check, adjust salt and spice level.
- Cool down and then store in an airtight container! Serve as a snack with hot coffee.
Notes
- If you like garlic flavour just add 1 crushed garlic along with the curry leaves.
Raisins give a nice sweet crunch while eating so dont skip it. - Fry each ingredient separately.
- While frying poha make sure oil is just for the poha to immerse else poha will drink more oil.
- You can even use a strainer to fry poha. Add poha to a strainer and dip it inside oil in that case you can add more oil so that poha immerses well in oil.
- Adding sesame seeds is optional.
- This keeps well even for 2 weeks when stored in airtight container.
Method:
- Get ready with all your ingredients.Heat oil, once its hot add fried gram dal and fry till golden brown.Use a strainer to drain excess oil.Add it to tissue paper.Set aside.
- Next fry curry leaves until crisp, drain and set aside.Then fry cashews till golden brown, drain and set aside.Add raisins and fry till it bubbles up, drain and set aside.
- Take your poha, add it to oil and fry till the shh sound ceases, Drain and add it to tissue paper to remove excess oil.
- Add sesame seeds,let it splutter then add required salt red chilli and turmeric powders.Now collect everything and drain the excess oil using a tissue paper.
- After draining and removing excess oil, mix everything together and toss it well.Check, adjust salt and spice level.
Cool down and then store in an airtight container! Serve as a snack with hot coffee.
My Notes:
- If you like garlic flavor just add 1 crushed garlic along with the curry leaves.
- Raisins give a nice sweet crunch while eating so dont skip it.
- Fry each ingredient separately.
- Wile frying poha make sure oil is just for the poha to immerse else poha will drink more oil.You can even use a strainer to fry poha.Add poha to a strainer and dip it inside oil in that case you can add more oil so that poha immerses well in oil.
- Adding sesame seeds is optional.
- This keeps well even for 2 weeks when stored in airtight container.
Torviewtoronto
looks fabulous and flavourful
roshini
just tried out this recipe . my aval mixture is extremely oily , any suggestions to reduce this pl
SHARMILEE J
As I've mentioned add very little oil while frying , after frying drain in tissue paper
Lola Manoharan
Hi, Can the aval be roasted in an oven or dry roasted in a pan with just a smear of oil to solve the problem of extra oil?Or will it turn out hard? Any suggestions? Thank you!
Sharmilee J
It wont be crisp so better to deep fry