Cereal Chivda Recipe (chevdo)
Cereal chivda recipe (chevdo) (honey bunches of oats cereal chivda) – healthy chivda or mixture recipe as a Diwali snack or anytime snack.
I have used honey bunches of oats cereal to make this delicious chivda recipe. Honey bunches of oats cereal is a combination of cornflakes and honey-coated oats. This is my aunt’s recipe. I am very thankful to her for sharing her recipe with me. This recipe is little similar to corn flakes chivda.
For calorie conscious people, this is the perfect chivda or mixture recipe for this Diwali festival. Enjoy a small bowl of chivda as a snack without any worry of gaining weight.
I have added a very small pinch of citric acid also known as (nimboo ful or limbu na ful) to this recipe. Thus it has a balanced flavor of sweetness from honey coated oats & raisins with the tanginess from citric acid.
I have added different nuts like peanuts, cashews, and dalia. You can totally add or skip any nuts and make it as per your liking. Even you can increase and decrease the quantity of nuts of your choice.
A teaspoon of chili powder will give you medium spicy taste. If making it for kids adjust the red chili powder accordingly.
How to make cereal chivda?
1) Measure the honey bunches of oats cereal and keep it aside.
2) Heat the oil in a pan on medium heat. Once hot add cumin seeds, let them sizzle.
3) Then add curry leaves. Let them dry out completely. To increase the shelf life of chivda, there should not be any moisture from curry leaves.
4) Then add peanuts, roasted chana dal and cashews. Fry them till they become light brown in color.
5) Then add raisins. Fry till they plump up. do not roast for long time otherwise raisin will become chewy.
6) Then add red chili powder, turmeric powder, salt, citric acid. Mix it.
7) Immediately add cereal.
8) Mix till all the masala and oil is coated to cereal. Do it gently we do not want to break cereals.
9) Then add sev.
10) Mix it well. Roast it till cereal become crunchy about 2 minutes. Turn off the stove.
Let it cool completely before serving or storing in the container.
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Cereal chivda recipe (Chevdo)
Ingredients
- 3 cups Honey bunches of oats cereal **Notes
- ½ cup Plain Sev
- 2 tablespoons Oil
- 1 teaspoon Cumin seeds
- 5-6 Curry leaves
- 2 tablespoon Peanuts
- 1 tablespoon Roasted chana dal (Fried gram or daria, dalia)
- 1 tablespoon Cashew nuts chopped
- 1 tablespoon Raisins
- 1 teaspoon Red chili powder
- ¼ teaspoon Turmeric powder
- Salt to taste
- a very small pinch or 1/16 teaspoon Citric acid (nimboo ful)
Instructions
Making honey bunches of oats cereal chivda:
- Heat the oil in a pan on medium heat.
- Once hot add cumin seeds, let them sizzle.
- Then add curry leaves. Let them dry out completely. To increase the shelf life of chivda, there should not be any moisture from curry leaves.
- Then add peanuts, roasted chana dal and cashews. Fry them till they become light brown in color.
- Then add raisins. Fry till they plump up.
- Then add red chili powder, turmeric powder, salt, citric acid. Mix it.
- Immediately add cereal. Mix till all the masala and oil is coated to cereal.
- Then add sev.
- Mix it well. Roast it till cereal become crunchy about 2 minutes.
- Turn off the stove.
- Let it cool completely before serving or storing in the container.
Notes
- Along with honey bunches of oats cereal, you can some cheerios.
- Or make this chivda with a combination of cornflakes and cheerios.
Hi, will it not be too sweet because this cereal has sugar in it? Plus any substitute for citric acid?
no it won’t be too sweet. just a hint of sweetness that is balanced by citric acid’s tartness.
Instead of citric acid you can use amchur powder.
Hi,
seems delicious…yesterday i tried ur corn flakes namkeen recipe/ corn flakes chivda. can u pls tell if corn flakes cereal and dry corn flakes are two different things. i tried frying kellogs corn flakes yesterday but nothing happened. how do i make crunchy corn chivda with those corn flakes.
pls answer
thanks
You are correct, Cornflakes cereal and dried cornflakes are two different things.
1) If using Cornflakes cereal than no need to fry, use directly in the recipe.
2) If using dried cornflakes which is also known as corn poha or makai poha than you need to deep fry first then use in the recipe.
As you said that you used Kellogg’s cereal, So do not deep fry, use as such in the recipe like I have used. If your cornflakes cereal are not crunchy because of the humidity weather then you can dry roast for few minutes on gas or in microwave or in oven then use in the recipe.
Lovely… i got it…thanks for answering