BEATEN RICE CHIVDA, AVAL CHIVDA, POHA CHIVDA

Beaten rice  chivda or aval or poha it is called is easy to make if you keep the ingredients handy.  It is a nice snack, less oil and anyone can eat with tea/coffee.  Poha is dry roasted and some groundnuts and pottukadala or chuntney dal is added to this.

Let us see the recipe now:

Ingredients:

2 cups thin poha
1/4 cup ground nuts ( i like it very much hence added more of it)
2 tbsp chutney dal / pottu kadalai, Dalia
few curry leaaves
2-3 green chilli
a pinch of asafoetida
a generous pinch of turmeric powder
2 tbsp oil
a pinch of asafoetida
few sliced kopra (optional)
3-4 garlic cloves (optional)
salt
1 tsp sugar (optional)


Method:

1. pick the poha, sieve it for removing the dust and small pieces of poha.
2. dry roast the poha in high flame till it is crisp.
3. transfer it in a vessel.
4. dry roast the ground nuts ( i kept in the microwave for one minute each at 100 power for 5 times), you can roast the same in kadai too
5. Similarly, heat the chutney dal too. do not burn it or change the colour of it.
6. keep all the items together in a kadai.
7. another kadai heat the oil add the kopra, asafoetida, garlic cloves, turmeric powder, green chilli and curry leaves and salt.
8. when it is done pour it in the poha mixture.
9. mix well and serve.  
10. If you do not like garlic and kopra  do not add ( I did not add as my children will not like it)