Healthy N Nutritious Snacks-2

Pidata kindi Pappu Or Masala Maramaraalu-2

In continuation of my previous post some more recipes are here...

1.  Simple Recipe-2

Ingredients:

Puffed rice                    1 cup
Ghee (clarified butter)   1 tsp or 1 Tbsp

Corrainder seeds            1Tbsp

Red chilli Powder           1/4  tsp
Salt                               To taste
Lemon juice                   to taste

Method:

• Roast coriander seeds in a hot pan carefully. Cool it and grind it to a fine powder
• Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and serve. 
• Roast the puffs for crispiness
• To maintain crispness of the puffs, mix the ingredients just before serving.
• But I like it a little soggy as the flavours of the spices take a few minutes to get absorbed into the puffs.
• Adjust spices according to your taste as this may be too spicy for Western Platter

2.  Puffs N Nuts Mix Recipe-1

Ingredients:

Puffed rice                       1 cup
Roasted Peanuts                 1-2 Tbsps
Puffed Chickpeas               1-2 Tbsps
Roasted Sesame Seeds        2 tsps
Dried Coconuts shredded    1/2 Tbsp
Ghee (clarified butter)       1 tsp or 1 Tbsp
Red chilli Powder              1 tsp
Salt                                  To taste
Lemon juice                      To taste

         Puffed Rice

         Roasted  Peanuts

        Puffed Chick Pea

          Sesame seeds

         Dried Coconut

        Red Chilli Powder

        Coriander seeds

Method:

• Some like to remove the skin of the Peanuts after roasting and cooling them. That can be done just by rubbing them between the palms. But I prefer no to remove it for its nutritional value.
• Dried coconut is readily available in markets in halves as well as in scrapped form. 
• Sesame seeds should be roasted carefully as they have the tendency to pop out.
• Sesame seeds can be used as it is or ground into a coarse powder.
• Its better to slightly roast puffed chickpea too so that it is crispy.
• Adjust the spices according to your taste as this may be too spicy.
• Mix all the ingredients and serve.
• This can also stored for some time say a week or so. Mix peanuts, puffs, coconut and sesame seeds. Avoid the lemon juice, ghee, spices including salt. Just before serving add all these, mix well and serve.
• This mixture is also eaten without, salt, spices or lemon juice.
• This combination if eaten at least a fistful once in a day or once/ twice in a week is very good for health

More recipes to come ...keep an eye on my blog.....