Sabudana chivda is a crispy and crunchy snack made with nylon sabudana, peanuts, mixed nuts, and spices. It is a flavorful namkeen that is enjoyed during religious festivals such as Navratri, Shivratri, or any other Hindu fasting days. In this recipe, I share how to make homemade nylon sabudana, which can be stored and prepared in a slightly different way. Do give it a try!
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Ingredients
For nylon sabudana
- 1 cup sabudana
 - 2 + ยฝ cup water
 - Salt to taste
 
For sabudana chivda
- 150 grm prepared nylon sabudana
 - ยฝ cup peanuts
 - ยผ cup cashews
 - ยฝ cup coconut slices
 - 3 chopped green chilli
 - Some curry leaves
 - Salt to taste
 - 2 tbsp sugar
 
Instructions
Making nylon sabudana
- In a mixing bowl, add sabudana and wash it.
 - Add ยฝ cup water and soak sabudana for 5-6 hrs.
 - Now add 1 cup hot water into soaked sabudana and rest it for 10-15 minutes.
 - Then mash sabudana slightly with hand.
 - Now add sabudana mixture into pressure cooker and add 1 cup water. Mix well.
 - Cover the lid and pressure cook mixture on high flame for 1 whistle.
 - When pressure cooker release it pressure, open the lid and cool down cooked mixture slightly. Do not cool down it completely.
 - Then add mixture into piping bag and make small size nylon sabudana on plastic sheet. (refer video)
 - Sun dry nylon sabudana for a 1 day or till it become crispy. Store it into air-tight container.
 
Making sabudana chivda
- Heat oil on high flame, add nylon sabudana and it will immediately puff up. Take out into mixing bowl and fry another into same way.
 - Now in a sieve add peanut and fry it.
 - Then add cashews and dry coconut till it become slightly brown.
 - Then fry chopped green chilli and curry leaves.
 - Add everything into fried sabudana.
 - Then add salt and sugar. Mix well.
 - Sabudana chivda is ready. Serve or store it into air-tight container.
 
Notes
- Do not more water while soaking sabudana
 - Mash soaked sabudana slightly so it will easily bind into mixture.
 - Fry nylon sabudana on high flame, so it will easily puff up.
 
