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45 min — 15 min prep, 30 min cooking.

Baked Chevdo (Gujarati Healthy Poha Chivda)

Name: Baked Chevdo (Gujarati Healthy Poha Chivda)
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: Gujarat Indian
Ingredients: 500g Poha (Thin - Paper); salt; 4piece green chillies; Sunflower Oil; 0.25cup raisins; 2tsp Turmeric Powder; 2tbsp sugar; 0.5tsp Red Chilli Powder (Lal Mirch); 0.25cup Peanuts; 0.25cup sesame seeds; 12piece Curry Leaves; 1tsp Asafoetida

Gujarati Diwali festive namkeen — thin poha tossed with roasted peanuts, sesame seeds, raisins, turmeric, asafoetida, and chillies, then oven-baked to crisp (lower-oil version of traditional fried chivda). Tea-time snack.

Time 45 min · Serves 12 · 212 kcal · West India, Gujarat

Ingredients

Main

Poha (Thin - Paper) — 500 g (ground)
salt (optional) (whole)
green chillies — 4 piece (chopped)
Sunflower Oil (optional) (whole)
raisins — 0.25 cup (chopped)
Turmeric Powder — 2 tsp (ground)
sugar — 2 tbsp (ground)
Red Chilli Powder (Lal Mirch) — 0.5 tsp (ground)
Peanuts — 0.25 cup (roasted)
sesame seeds — 0.25 cup (whole)

Tempering

Curry Leaves — 12 piece (chopped)
Asafoetida — 1 tsp (ground)

Method

To begin with the Baked Chevdo Recipe, first preheat the oven to 220 C.Sift the beaten rice using a large sieve sifter to remove any fine excess powders.Do it in batches.
The oil we add is just to make sure the salt gets coated onto the beaten rice to give a nice taste.Place the beaten rice into the oven and bake for 5 to 7 minutes until very very lightly browned.
Monitor closely as each oven works differently.Proceed the same way with the remaining beaten rice and then keep them all together in a large bowl or a baking tray.Our next step is to roast each on the individual ingredients.In a small pan, dry roast the sesame seeds until it crackles.
Once it does, then add it to the baked beaten rice.Add in the roasted peanuts and almonds into the beaten rice as well.(Dont stir as yet, the more you keep stirring, the beaten rice will tend to crumble.
Remove from the heat and pour it over the beaten rice.
If you let it roast for longer than the bloating stage, then the raisins will become stiff.Next add in half a teaspoon of oil into the above pan and roast the green chillies, until lightly crisp and browned.
Pour this over the beaten rice again.Finally heat a teaspoon of oil in the above pan; once the oil is heated, turn off the heat - add to this oil - the turmeric powder, red chilli powder and asafoetida powder.
Stir to mix well.Pour this over the beaten rice.Finally, add the powdered sugar and the curry leaf powder over the beaten rice.Now stir all the ingredients that you poured over the rice.
The stirring has to be a folding action - gentle and more gentle.
The nylon poha also known as the thin poha breaks apart very easily.
Although in the process of mixing all the ingredient you will notice that some crumble, but that's ok.Make sure you mix the and finally check for the salt levels, adjust the spices like salt, sugar, chilli and asafoetida according to your taste.

Common questions

How many calories in one plate of Baked Chevdo (Gujarati Healthy Poha Chivda)?: 212 kcal per plate.
How much cooking time?: 45 min — 15 min prep, 30 min cooking.

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