Baked / Roasted Chevro / Chevdo

Ingredients

4 cups thin pawa /poha , (dried cooked flattened rice)

1/2 cup whole almonds

1/2 cup whole cashew nuts

1/2 small red peanuts

1/2 melon seeds

1/2 golden raisins

1/2 cup daria / dalia (roasted split chickpeas - available in Indian shops)

2 tspn tumeric

2 tspn sugar

salt to taste

powdered red chillis to taste

1 tablespoon oil

1 tspn fennel

2 tspn sesame seeds

1/2 tspn mustard seeds

12-14 curry leaves

3-4 cloves

Method

1. Warm the oven to 150 degrees centigrade or 300 degrees Fahrenheit

2. Mix the Tumeric, salt, sugar and red chili powder in a small bowl

3. Place the pawa / poha in 2 large trays and bake for 10 minutes

4. Place in a large container and Stir in the tumeric mix. Don't worry if the mix does not look yellow, the colour will develop.

5. Place the raisins on a baking tray, spray with a little oil, bake for about 5 minutes or until the raisins swell up into tiny balls.

5. Turn up the temperature 175 degrees centigrade / 350 degrees Fahrenheit

6. Bake the Almonds, Cashews nut for 15 minutes

7. Melon seeds, peanuts and daria / dalia for 10 minutes

8 Mix the raisins and nuts with the pawa / poha

9. Heat the oil in a small frying pan, fry the fennel, sesame seeds mustard seeds, curry leaves and cloves and add to the chevro mix.

ENJOY

Tips

you can also add crisps

Use cornflakes instead of pawa / poha

Use mumbra or rice crispies instead.

Rice crispies or cornflakes don't need to be baked.

To make the colour richer add 1tspn of paprika (I did not have any)