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.
