Mixture is a tasty, crispy savory snack made by mixing kara boondi, omapodi, fried poha, peanuts and nuts. Mixture is the commonly relished popular snack for tea time and made at home for Diwali and special occasions. Learn to make South Indian Mixture with step by step pictures for easy understanding and reference.
Mixture is one of the popular South Indian snacks we can make easily at home. If you have omapodi and kara boondi ready then frying all others are just so easy. I usually make these a day before and fry all other ingredients and mix it.
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About South Indian Mixture
Mixture is my favorite snack. I love to mix it with curd and eat. I didn’t have any plans to try mixture recipe but my sister encouraged me to make mixture at home saying that it is very easy just to mix up all the ingredients once they are ready. So when I made boondi I planned to make mixture as well and here it is for you.
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Mixture Ingredients
- Kara Boondi, Omapodi – You can use homemade omapodi and karaboondi.
- Poha – Poha or flattened rice flakes are deep fried and used.
- Fried gram dal – It is fried and added which gives a soft crunch while eating.
- Nuts – Peanuts and cashewnuts are fried and added.
- Curry leaves – Curry leaves are added for flavor.
- Red chili powder – Red chili powder adds spice.
- Hing – Hing gives flavor and aids in digestion
How to make Mixture Recipe Step by Step
1.I made boondi and omapodi a day ahead to save time. Make all the ingredients ready – Deep fry peanuts and curry leaves until crisp, drain in a tissue and set aside. Then fry poha, gram dhal each separately until crisp .You can add a pinch of salt, hing while frying but it is purely optional.
2.Then fry the cashews. Drain the excess oil in a tissue, set aside. Take a newspaper transfer all the ingredients.
3.Add red chili powder / pepper powder and give a quick mix. Can you see who is helping me? :)) If you are adding ribbon pakoda, mullu murukku and thattai just crush them with your hands before adding. You can even transfer this to an airtight container and give a quick shake for it to mix evenly.
Your homemade south indian flavorful mixture is ready!!
Expert Tips
- There is no accurate measures for mixture recipe, its just plus or minus the ingredients as we would prefer so be generous in adding more whichever you like it.
- You can even crush garlic and fry it in oil and add it to the mixture for a garlic flavor.
- You can skip salt as well as all the fried items already has salt in it.
- You can additionally add cornflakes and other nuts too.
- If you like pepper flavor skip red chili powder and add pepper.
Serving and Storage
Mixture keeps well in room temperature for about 15-20 days. This snack should only be stored in room temperature
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Mixture Recipe | South Indian Mixture
Ingredients
- 1 cup kara boondi
- 1 cup omapodi
- 1/4 cup poha
- 1/4 cup fried gram dal
- 3 tablespoon cashewnuts
- 1/4 cup peanuts
- a handful curry leaves
- 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
- a pinch hing
- salt to taste
Instructions
- I made boondi and omapodi a day ahead to save time. Make all the ingredients ready – Deep fry peanuts and curry leaves until crisp, drain in a tissue and set aside. Then fry poha, gram dhal each separately until crisp .You can add a pinch of salt , hing while frying but it is purely optional.
- Then fry the cashews. Drain the excess oil in a tissue, set aside. Take a newspaper transfer all the ingredients.
- Add red chili powder / pepper powder and give a quick mix. Can you see who is helping me? :)) If you are adding ribbon pakoda, mullu murukku and thattai just crush them with your hands before adding. You can even transfer this to an airtight container and give a quick shake for it to mix evenly.
- Your homemade south indian flavorful mixture is ready!!
Notes
- There is no accurate measures for mixture recipe, its just plus or minus the ingredients as we would prefer so be generous in adding more whichever you like it.
- You can even crush garlic and fry it in oil and add it to the mixture for a garlic flavor.
- You can skip salt as well as all the fried items already has salt in it.
- You can additionally add cornflakes and other nuts too.
- If you like pepper flavor skip red chili powder and add pepper.
Vardhini
Looks terrific Sharmi :).
Srimathi
Looks so colorful mouther watering perfect.
Janani
oh wow!!!!! This looks fantastic 🙂 Feel like eating them now itself 🙂
divya
Looks soooo….good!!!
An Open Book
i love mixture in any form..and sadly have to travel far to get some south indian chivda. I am not a big fan of the north indian ones though..
Uma Ramanujam
Superb Sharmi. Initially I thougt making mixer is a big job. But my mom always says it is the easy one. Want to crunch for hot cup of tea.
Prathima Rao
Crispy & spicy & totally droolworthy!!
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Veena Theagarajan
love it! nice shorts
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Sridevi
Hi Sharmi,
I Loved ur recipes but this is the first time iam writing the comment. Very nice clicks and mouth watering recipe. Super sharmi keep up ur good work.
Shema George
Wow..this Mixture looks terrific. I have a weakness for these and your look so inviting..Nice click, very clear
Priya
Droolworthy mixture, beautifully done.
Teena Mary
wow that is an incredible attempt!! Perfectly made!!
Mahi
Mixture looks delicious Sharmi!
Thought of skipping the Diwali sweet-snack preparations this year! But your photos/posts from the past couple of weeks tempt me a lot! This is not fair! 😉 🙂
BTW,Nice array of sweets of savoury items so far! Have a great Diwali!
suhaina aji
Mixture looks yummy and crunchy.perfect with a hot cup of tea. Nice clicks.
RAKS KITCHEN
I could smell it here, love the traditional mixture always,I mix it with sugar and eat 😀
Premalatha Aravindhan
Yummy mixture,luks delicious…
Happy Cook / Finla
I wish i had the patience and ingridients to make these, looks so so good.
Zareena
My mom makes mixture this way. I love home made mixture, but as am lazy I never tried to make it.
Vaishnavi
Looks amazing! I luv mittu's hands pics…Also, what an enthu for posts…your blog deserves an award for the posts the occupy it.
Vidyalakshmi Madishetty
Hi Sharmi…i just prepared this mixture…thank you for the recipe …tkr
ammukutty
I think i posted a comment in "Sev " recipe…. the mixture came out really good & the whole family is now your fan ;))….
vaidyanath
Sharmi – What can be made from Karuveppilai flowes, there's plenty growing in our place. Vaidy
SHARMILEE J
I am not sure as I havent used them in my cooking….