Monday, April 20, 2009

मक्याचा चिवडा / Corn Flakes Chivada

Post after looooong long time... almost after 4 months... coming up with a category called 'chivada' in Maharashtra, 'Chivado' in Gujrat. Chivada can be done with different snack makers like Puffed rice(चूरmoo ), Rice flakes(पोहे ) , Corn Flakes. Chivada is a good option as Tea time snacks :) or also can add few more things and make Bhel out of it.Today i am giving with Corn flakes. Being one of the healthy foods, it gives healthy touch to snacks along with a good taste :) Because nothing is important in life than your Health and well being :) isn't it? 

 preparation time: 10 minutes cooking time: 5-7 minutes. Ingredients: 

200gm corn flakes ( I use Tesco’s plain corn flakes but  any brand can be used as per your choice) 

4-5 (or as per your taste) chopped green chillies 

3 tea spoons oil for tempering. 

Mustard seeds, Cumin seeds , Curry leaves 

Pinch of Asafoetida powder 

Ground nuts and or Cashew nuts optional

Salt as per taste
1 tea spoon Coriander powder
Turmeric
1 tea spoon powdered sugar 

3 pinches of Amchoor mango powder 

Some kind of Mixture or Sev for garnishing. 

  Procedure:
  1. Heat up the oil in a wok.
  2. Keep the flame to medium and temper the oil with mustard , jeera and curry leaves. Let it crackle then add turmeric powder,asafoetida powder,chopped green chillies, peanuts. You can use red chilli powder in place of green chillies too. Add coriander powder. 
  3. Reduce the flame to sim now and add corn flakes slowly. Little quantity at a time.
  4. Now add salt,amchoor powder, powdered sugar.
  5. Add fried cashew nuts if you want.
  6. Mix well with a spoon.
  7. Toss the pan gently so that all the ingredients get well mixed with the corn flakes.
  8. Mix the sev in the chivada.
  9. Turn off the heat and transfer it to another pan.
  10. Once chivada is cooled down keep it in airtight container.
  11. You can garnish it with finely chopped tomato / onion and coriander leaves and serve :)

Enjoy a healthy snack :)