South Indian Chivda or Mixture

I remember my childhood days, when festival day comes my mom used to make huge canisters of mixture or murruku with her friends.Mixture is one of the popular South Indian snack.If you are trying to make what they call it in Indian Stores ‘south Indian chivda’ or Mixture, here is the recipe how we made it.Since we got bored of getting mixture from indian stores,we decided to make.The results were great. This a preparation of me and my friend ,Enjoy this with a cup of tea or coffee , great evening snack.Here is a simple method to make crispy Mixture!!!!

INGREDIENTS:

(For Bhoondi)
Gram flour – 2cups

Rice flour - 3 tsp
Chili powder – 2tsp
Salt

(For sev)
Gram flour – 2cups
Rice flour – ¾ cup
Chili powder – 2tsp
Cumin seeds,ajwain/omam – 1tsp
Hot oil – 2tsp
Butter – half stick
Salt

(Other)
Ground nuts – 1cup
Chatney dhal (pottukadalai) – 2cups
Curry leaves – 2springs
Garlic – 2
Soaked channa dhal(2 hours) – 2 cup
Corn flakes – 1 cup

METHOD:

Mix gramflour,chili powder,rice flour in the bowl and add salt and dilute it with water till dosa batter consistency. Heat the oil.Now pour a spoonful of the batter into the slotted spoon with round holes.You can use either a rounded spoon/cup/your hand to do this.Tap it gently with a spoon so that small balls of dough fall into the oil. Turn and fry until get golden and crisp. Do this until the batter finishes. Drain on paper towel.

Mix all the ingredients for sev and make a thick smooth dough by adding water as necessary. Now add hot oil and mix well. My mom used to add oil to the dough of muruku and mixture; it gives more softness to sev. Take a handful dough place in a sev mould and press carefully over the hot oil. Turn and fry until brown and crisp. Do this till the dough finishes. Drain on paper towel.

Fry all the other ingredients (except channa dhal) and drain on paper towel.Channa dhal should be deep fried.We can eat this fried channa dhal(with salt and chili powder) as a separate snack called poom parupu. Be careful when fring the curry leaves. Now add all this with bhoondi and sev in a bowl and add mix well by adding 1 more spoon chili powder, little salt. Allow to cool and keep in airtight dry container.

Note:Dont worry if you dont have a slotted spoon with round holes....We used carrot Shredder.Enjoy...