Aloo Chivda / Vrat ki Falahari Namkeen

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5 from 4 votes

Aloo Chivda / Vrat ki Falahari Namkeen

Aloo Chivda- Fried potato sticks,peanuts and cashews tossed Indian style

Prep Time10

Cook Time10

Total Time20

Course: fasting recipe, snacks/starters

Cuisine: Indian, North Indian Cuisine

Keyword: aloo chivda, namkeen, vrat ki namkeen

Calories: 669kcal

Author: Anjana Chaturvedi

Ingredients

500 grams Potatoes / Aloo
3/4 cup Peanuts / Moongphali
3/4 cup Cashew Nuts / Kaju
2 tbsp Raisins / Kishmish
2 tsp Green Chillies / Hari Mirch chopped
10 Curry Leaves

Spice Mix

1.5 tsp Castor sugar / Pisi hui chini
1/4 tsp Citric Acid/nimbu phool/taatri *
1 tsp Pepper Powder / Kali Mirch
to taste Rock salt / Sendha namak

Instructions

Peel potato and then grate it with a thick grater .
Wash the grated potato with enough water and then squeeze well.
Now spread it on a kitchen towel for 20 minutes.
Take a small bowl and mix all the spices and keep aside.
Heat oil in a deep and wide pan.
Add the grated potatoes in the pan and fry on high flame for 2 minutes.
Then lower the flame and fry till they become golden and crisp.
Drain the fried potatoes on a paper napkin.
Repeat the process and fry potatoes in batches.
Then fry peanuts on low heat till they become golden and crisp,drain on a paper napkin.
Fry cashews on low heat till golden and then drain
Add chopped green chilies in the hot oil and fry,after few seconds add chopped curry leaves .
When curry leaves become crisp, add raisins.
When raisin floats on top of the oil then take out and drain on a paper napkin.
Now sprinkle the spices over all fried ingredients and mix well.
Let the chiwda cool down completely then serve or store.

Notes

Note-
1-Citric acid can be substituted with mango powder or you can skip both.
2-Instead of making with freshly grated potatoes, you can also make this potato chiwda with readymade sun dried potato sticks/sev .But the taste and texture will be different

To make sun dried Aloo sev and papad-check the recipe HERE-

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