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South Indian Mixture

Popular Diwali snack – South Indian mixture recipe
Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time1 hour
Total Time1 hour 20 minutes
Course: Snack
Cuisine: Indian
Keyword: Diwali recipes
Servings: 7 cups
Author: Jeyashri suresh

Ingredients

  • 1 cup besan flour
  • ¼ cup rice flour
  • 1 tsp red chili powder
  • 1 tbsp hot oil
  • A pinch of baking soda
  • Oil for deep frying
  • Asafoetida a generous pinch
  • 1 cup Besan | kadalai maavu
  • ¼ cup Rice flour
  • Salt as needed
  • 1 tbsp Hot oil
  • Asafoetida a generous pinch
  • ¼ cup pottukadalai
  • ¼ cup peanuts
  • 2 tbsp aval | poha
  • ¼ cup cashew nuts
  • 2 tsp red chili powder
  • Salt as needed
  • Few curry leaves
  • 1/2 tsp Black pepper powder

Instructions

  • First let’s make plain sev for the mixture.
  • Add besan flour, rice flour, 1 tbsp of hot oil, salt, and asafoetida.
  • Add water and make a soft dough.
  • Use omapodi achu for making plain sev.
  • Place a portion of dough and cover it.
  • Squeeze into the hot oil.
  • Fry on both sides
  • Take out once oil sound subsides.
  • Drain in a kitchen towel. Repeat this for the rest of the dough.
  • Let’s make Kara boondi now.
  • Check out my full recipe on How to make Kara boondi.
  • In a bowl add 1 cup besan |gram flour, rice flour, red chili powder, salt, baking soda and 1 tbsp hot oil.
  • Add water and mix well without lumps.
  • It should be a smooth batter in the consistency of dosa batter.
  • Make boondis using a perforated ladle.
  • Fry till the oil sound subsides.
  • Take out from oil once it is crisp.
  • Repeat this for the rest of the batter.
  • It yielded 3 cups of boondi.
  • Add ¼ cup of peanuts and fry it.
  • Take out and drain in a kitchen towel.
  • Add ¼ cup of roasted gram and fry till golden brown.
  • Take out from oil and drain in a kitchen towel.
  • Now fry ¼ cup of cashew nuts.
  • Take out once it is golden brown.
  • Fry 2 tbsp aval | poha. Use thick poha.
  • Take out from oil once it is crisp.
  • It gets cooks very fast, so be quick in taking it out from oil.
  • Switch off and add few curry leaves.
  • Take out once crisp.
  • In a wide bowl add the plain sev
  • Break it into pieces.
  • Now add the kara boondi, fried nuts, aval and curry leaves one by one.
  • Add 2 tsp red chili powder, little salt and ½ tsp pepper powder.
  • Mix well with a clean dry spoon.
  • South Indian mixture is ready.

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Notes

1.You can add sweet maida biscuits to the mixture
2. Always keep the mixture in a clean airtight container.
3. You can add few murukku bits to the mixture too.
4. South Indian Mixture stays good for 2 weeks in an airtight container.