Poha Chivda Recipe / Aval Mixture Recipe with step by step pictures and a short YouTube video. If you like my video, please share it and don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to my channel. This chivda is another Janmashtami special snack, made from beaten rice or rice flakes, mildly sweeter, spicy yet such a simple recipe. You can give a lot of variations by adding fried coconut bits, almonds, maida biscuits, sesame seeds, garlic flakes or a few pinches of sugar too. For a healthy option, poha can be pan-fried with very little oil, it stays crunchy in that way too. Do check my Poha Kesari / Sheera and Poha Kheer / Aval Payasam Recipes too.
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Poha Chivda Recipe

Aval Mixture Recipe | Poha Chivda Recipe
Equipment
- Stovetop
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Thick Poha / Flattened Rice / அவல்
- ¼ Cup Peanuts / கடலை
- ¼ Cup Fried Grams / பொட்டுக்கடலை
- 10 Cashew / முந்திரி
- 10 Raisins / உலர்ந்த திராட்சை
- 2 Sprig Curry Leaves / கருவேப்பில்லை
- ½ tsp Turmeric Powder / மஞ்சள்தூள்
- 2 tsp Red Chilli Powder / மிளகாய்த்தூள்
- Salt / உப்பு As Required
- Oil For Deep Frying
Instructions
- First, measure and keep all the ingredients ready. I used a metal strainer to fry, so it will be easy to collect all the fried items but you can fry in oil directly too. Heat oil in a pan and add the peanuts.
- Once the peanuts turn to golden colour, drain it in a kitchen towel.
- Then add the fried gram, fry it in very low flame as it turns brown soon and keep aside. Now fry the cashews and raisins.
- Simmer the flame and fry the poha in batches. Finally, fry the curry leaves till crispy.
- To a wide plate or bowl, transfer the fried poha, peanuts, fried gram, cashews, raisins and curry leaves.
- Add turmeric powder, chilli powder and required salt. Do the mixing when the fried items are warm itself, so the turmeric and chilli powder sticks to the poha.
- Try this Aval Mixture Recipe for this Janmashtami Festival.
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Notes
Tips for Poha Chivda Recipe
1.First, there is no specific measurement for this Aval Mixture Recipe. You can even add maida biscuits, almonds, 1 tbsp of fried sesame seeds, fried coconut bits etc, Also alter and adjust the ingredients as per wish.2. Always use fresh oil for frying otherwise, the mixture smells bad.
3. Fry the poha and fried gram in medium flame, else it gets burnt soon.
4. I used a metal strainer to fry, so it will be easy to collect all the fried items but you can fry it in oil directly too.
5. For more flavour 2 crushed garlic flakes can be fried in oil and added to the mixture.
6. Adjust chilli powder as per spice level required for this Poha Chivda Recipe.
7. Add curry leaves generously for a nice flavour.
8. If preferred 2 tsp of sugar can be added, which enhances the taste of the mixture.
9. It stays good for 15 days when stored in an airtight and dry container.

Aval Mixture Recipe
Method for Aval Mixture Recipe
1. First, measure and keep all the ingredients ready. I used a metal strainer to fry, so it will be easy to collect all the fried items but you can fry in oil directly too. Heat oil in a pan and add the peanuts.
2. Once the peanuts turn to golden colour, drain it in a kitchen towel.
3. Then add the fried gram, fry it in very low flame as it turns brown soon and keep aside. Now fry the cashews and raisins.
4. Simmer the flame and fry the poha in batches. Finally, fry the curry leaves till crispy.
5. To a wide plate or bowl, transfer the fried poha, peanuts, fried gram, cashews, raisins and curry leaves.
6. Add turmeric powder, chilli powder and required salt. Do the mixing when the fried items are warm itself, so the turmeric and chilli powder sticks to the poha.
Try this Aval Mixture Recipe for this Janmashtami Festival.

Poha Mixture Recipe
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