Kaccha Chivda

Recipe: 

Ingredients:

Nylon Poha (Preferrable)/ Thin Poha - 1.25 lb
Oil - 6 tsp
Peanut - 0.5 cup
Green Chilly - 2 (slit and chopped big)
Curry Leaves - 2 sprigs (chopped)
Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
Cumin Seeds - 3 tsp
Salt - as per taste
Sugar - 1 tsp
Putani (Roasted Chana Dal) - 0.5 small cup*

Preparation:

1. Heat oil in a pan.
2. Add the peanuts and let it fry a bit.
3. Add the green chillies and curry leaves and switch off the gas and keep it aside.
4. Add the turmeric powder to the above mix.
5. Next take jira, salt and sugar in a mixer and grind it to a powder. Keep it aside.
6. Next take putani in a mixer and grind it to a fine powder.
7. Mix the jira powder and putani powder together.
8. In a separate pan, take poha and fry it for a few seconds.
9. Once done, put the poha and the ground powder mix to the peanut mix and put it back on stove.
10. Carefully mix it so that the flavors spread evenly and also do it gently so that the poha does not break.

Kaccha Chivda is ready. Once it cools down, you can store it in the jars and they last for weeks.

*small cup = idli vati