Kerala Mixture

Yep! Everything is deep fried and mixed together.

I have used sev, boondi, corn flakes, cashewnuts, green chilly, pottu kadala / roasted gram, ground nuts and curry leaf.

People add many other ingredients like pieces of murukku, raisins and bhujia. What I have made here is typical Kerala type Mixture.

Ingredients:

Besan / Kadala mav / chick pea flour - 1 cup

Salt - 1 heaped tsp

Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp

Chilly powder - 1 tsp

Asafoetida powder - 1 tsp

Rice flour - 1 tbsp

Ground nuts - 1/4 cup

Cashew nuts - 1/4 cup

Pottu Kadala - 1/4 cup

Green chilly - 4, sliced

Curry leaf - 1 cup, tightly packed

Corn flakes - 1/2 cup

Oil for deep frying

Method:

Heat the oil in a large kadai.

Mix together 1/2 tsp salt with 2 tbsp water. Add this to the groundnuts and mix well. Keep aside.

Mix together the besan, salt, turmeric powder, chilly powder, asafoetida powder and rice flour.

Carefully add water (by the tablespoon) to make a thick paste. Add 2 tsp warm oil to this and mix well.

Once the oil gets hot, first fry the curry leaf till it turns crispy. Keep aside. This imparts a beautiful aroma to the oil.

Using the sev / idiyappa nazhi / mould, press out thin circles of the besan mix into the hot oil.
After about 2 minutes (do not hurry, the bottom has to set), flip this and cook the other side too. Once both sides become golden, remove from oil.

Repeat process under almost all of the mixture is over.

With the rest of the batter, add more water and make a loose batter.
Make boondhi with this. Use a perforated ladle to get this shape.

Now fry the groundnuts (until you hear a popping sound), cashewnuts (till they turn golden brown), Pottu Kadala (till it turns golden brown), Green chilly (till it starts changing colour) and corn flakes separately. ( I dusted some salt and chilly powder over the cashewnuts and corn flakes after they were fried)

Now break the sev and mix all the ingredients together.
Your Mixture is ready.