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Sabudana Chivda | Sabudana Namkeen

This Nylon sabudana chivda is a crispy and tasty fasting snack made from nylon sabudana and dry fruits for the Navratri fasts.

Prep Time
5 mins
Cook Time
5 mins
Total Time
30 mins
Servings: 2 to 3
Course: Snacks
Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients

  • ½ cup nylon sabudana large pearls
  • ¼ cup peanuts
  • ¼ cup raisins
  • ¼ cup cashews
  • ¼ teaspoon red chili powder or 1 green chili - chopped
  • ½ teaspoon powdered sugar or as required
  • rock salt (edible and food grade) as required
  • oil for deep frying

Instructions

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  1. In a metal frying strainer, take the nylon sabudana pearls.
  2. Heat oil for deep frying in a kadai/wok. Heat as much quantity, in which the pearls can get immersed completely. Place the metal frying strainer with 2 to 3 tbsp of the sabudana pearls in the oil. Don't over crowd as then the frying is not even.
  3. When the pearls come in contact with the hot oil, they will start puffing up.
  4. With a spoon, keep on turning them around, so that they are fried evenly.
  5. The pearls have to fried really well. Even if they look, crisp and done from out, they will be hard from inside. To check for doneness, you can bite into a few pearls. If you feel they are not cooked from the center, then continue to fry them. If theyremove and drain the fried pearls on kitchen paper issues.
  6. Now fry raw peanuts the same way in the oil, till they change color and become crunchy. Similarly fry the cashews and raisins. When frying the raisins, as soon as they puff up, remove them from oil
  7. As soon as the dry fruits are fried and golden, drain them on paper napkins.
  8. You can add rock salt, powdered sugar and red chili powder and mix everything together. Or take all of the fried ingredients in a jar, once the chiwda mixture becomes cool. Sprinkle, salt, powdered sugar and red chili powder.
  9. Cover the jar tightly and shake it, so as to mix the seasonings with the sabudana and dry fruits. Store sabudana chivda at room temperature.
  10. Serve sabudana chivda plain when required.

Notes

  • The recipe can be doubled or tripled.
  • If using green chilies, then fry them in oil.