
Sabudana Khatti Meethi Namkeen
A Maharashtrian / Gujarati vrat (fasting) namkeen — a crunchy sweet-sour-salty mix of deep-fried sabudana (tapioca pearls), peanuts, cashews, and raisins, tossed with crisp curry leaves, rock salt, sugar, and black peppercorns. Made for Navratri and other Hindu fasting days; uses no onion, no garlic, and no chilli powder so it remains farali (fasting-permitted). About 225 kcal per serving.
Time 30 min · Serves 12 · 68 kcal · North India, Multiple States
Ingredients
Main
- Cashew Nuts — 17.5 piece (whole)
- sugar — 1 tbsp (ground)
- Sabudana (Large Grade) — 0.5 cup (ground)
- Rock Salt — 1 tsp (whole)
- Sunflower Oil (optional) (whole)
- boiled peanuts — 1 cup (whole)
- Black Peppercorns (Tellicherry Bold Grade) — 0.5 tsp (whole)
- raisins — 17.5 piece (chopped)
Tempering
- Curry Leaves — 9 piece (ground)
Method
- To begin making the Sabudana Khatti Meethi Namkeen Recipe, in a Kadai heat some oil.
- Drop one pearl of sabudana in hot oil to test if it is heated optimally.
- If it rises instantly to the surface, the oil is ready to fry.Add sabudana to oil and let the sabudana fry and puff up for a couple of minutes without changing its colour.
- Remove sabudana on a plate lined with a paper towel to absorb extra oil.In the similar way, fry the peanuts till golden brown in colour.
- Be careful not to over fry them for they will taste bitter.Remove the fried peanuts on the plate lined with paper towel along with sabudana.Now in a Shallow pan, add a few drops of oil and shallow fry cashews till golden brown.
- Add them to the peanut-sabudana plate.Then add raisins to the same pan and toss it in oil till they puff up.
- Once done transfer to the plate.Finally saute, washed and dried curry leaves and chopped green chillies till they turn crisp.Transfer everything to a bowl, add powdered sugar,salt and ground black pepper.Toss everything together and transfer to an airtight container upon cooling.
- Enjoy whenever hunger kicks in.
- Serve Sabudana Khatti Meethi Namkeen during evening along with Irani chai recipe.
Common questions
- Sabudana Khatti Meethi Namkeen ko English mein kya kehte hain?
- साबूदाना खट्टी मीठी नमकीन ko English mein Sabudana Khatti Meethi Namkeen likhte hain.
- Ek plate Sabudana Khatti Meethi Namkeen mein kitni calories hoti hain?
- 68 kcal per plate.
- Kitna time lagta hai?
- 30 min lagta hai — 10 min taiyari, 20 min pakana.
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