CORNFLAKES MIXTURE / MAKAI CHIVDA

Yield: 3-4 cups

Ingredients 


Raw Cornflakes: 1 cup  (to be fried)
Peanuts: ¼ cup
Avalakki puri: 1 cup  (store bought)
Curry leaves: 10 nos
Hing power: ½ tsp
Salt: as required
Red chilli powder: ¾-1 tsp
Oil: for frying


Preparation

1. Take a mixing bowl add avalakki puri and sprinkle salt, red chilli powder, hing all over it(add amount of spices required for avalakki puri).
2. Heat oil and fry cornflakes in batches, after every batch drain oil and add it to the bowl with avalakki puri. Cornflakes when fried, more than doubles in size.
3. Now sprinkle salt, red chilli powder, hing required for the cornflakes and mix.
4. Fry peanuts, curry leaves and add it to the mixture.
5. Mix all properly, cool and store in a air tight container.

Notes:

• The Avalakki puri used in the recipe is not the same as puffed rice/regular puri. While puffed rice is made of rice, Avalakki puri is made of flattened rice. A single puffed rice when pressed gets powdered easily than avalakki puri. Avalakki puri may not be easily and readily available in all markets. If unavailable you can skip the ingredient and make cornflakes mixture even without using it.

 Avalakki puri              Puffed rice(regular puri)

• I have used Avalakki puri in this recipe because it can absorb the oil from the fried cornflakes making the mixture a little lighter.
• Mixture recipes, as the name suggests is just a mix of many ingredients, often crunchy and does not necessarily follow a strict recipe. You can customize mixture recipes based on your liking and the ingredients available on hand. Similarly cornflakes mixture can be customized to your liking but the most popular addition is to include dry fruits like cashews, raisins, almonds.