Mixture is a tasty, crispy savoury made by assorting kara boondi, omapodi, fried peanuts & aval/ poha. Mixture is the commonly relished popular snack for tea time and made at home for Diwali & special occasions. Snacks Mixture recipe is explained in this post 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. Mixture recipe with detailed explanation for easy understanding and reference.
Mixture is my fav snack….I love to mix it with curd and eat. I didn’t have any plans to try mixture recipe but my sis 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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📖 Recipe
Mixture Recipe | Madras Mixture
Ingredients
- 1 cup Kara Boondi
- 1 cup Omapodi
- 1/4 cup poha
- 1/4 cup fried gram dal
- 3 tbsp cashewnuts
- a handful peanuts
- a handful curry leaves
- 1 tsp red chilli powder
- a pinch hing
- salt to taste
Other optional ingredients:
Instructions
- I made boondi and ompodi 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 / butter paper transfer all the ingredients.
- Add red chilli powder / pepper powder and give a quick mix. 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 style flavourful 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 chilli powder and add pepper.
Mixture Recipe Step by Step
- I made boondi and ompodi 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 chilli 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 style flavourful 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 flavour.
- 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 chilli powder and add pepper.
Vardhini
Looks terrific Sharmi :).
Nivedhanams Sowmya
i was waiting for this recipe ever since I saw your Diwali recipe collection!!! looks perfect!!
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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 😀
Sangeetha Nambi
Perfect south indian snacker…
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Navya Diwakar
You make this sound so easy and the pictures are so tempting 🙂 I have always been a lurker here but these pictures are too tempting that I had to comment.
I always thought making mixture from scratch was hard work but I just love how simple it seems from your pictures. And the picture of your kid helping you is just adorable! Makes me dream of doing something like this when my son is older 🙂
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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
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SHARMILEE J
I am not sure as I havent used them in my cooking….