Madras Mixture

Madras mixture / Diwali mixture

Diwali mixture

Madras Mixture

This year i prepared Madras mixture / Diwali mixture ,pic below .

Madras Mixture

Madras Mixture / Diwali mixture

Collage below shows some of the snacks that are used to prepare the Diwali mixture .

Madras Mixture

Madras Mixture , a must for our Diwali.. After preparing few savories, usually some broken pieces are kept aside to prepare this addictive mixture. The name is self explanatory . we can mix as many and whatever savory we have prepared with two or more varieties .

I usually prepare with some of the following snacks .

To prepare the Madras Mixture i have used the following

1 cup Omapodi ( sev ) broken

1 cup khara boondi.

1 cup ribbon pakoda...broken

1 cup fried thick poha

2 varieties of mullu murukku from same dough of ribbon pakoda each one cup

two varieties of sev using same dough of omapodi ( changing the plates )

1/4 cup shakkarpara

1/4 cup namakpara is the salted version of shakkar para, just follow same recipe but add salt and you can also make it with whole wheat flour instead of maida .

1/4 cup broken thattai

1/4 cup kara sev or plain thick sev like ghatiya

Other ingredients

cashewnuts

peanuts

asafoetida

chili powder

curry leaves

salt

kopra slices

Recipe links

shakkarpara

Ribbon pakoda

Omapodi new video

Omapodi old video

Thattai

change the sev plate and use two varieties of thickness using same omapodi dough

Kara Sev click this red link to get text recipe and procedure , and watch this video below for the method . New video uploaded recently.

Kara sev

For boondi

Boondi

1 cup gram flour

2 tbsp rice flour, pinch of salt

asafoetida powder , pinch of turmeric powder .

make a dosa like batter ( not runny )take a sieve or plate with holes ( boondi plate )

add a ladle of batter to the plate and spread the batter with a spatula slowly, over hot oil

the boondis must fry well, take out when crisp, drain and keep aside

Spicy besan chakli / murukku

spicy besan murukku/ chakli

1 cup rice flour

1/2 cup besan

1 tsp chili powder or as preferred

1/4 tsp crushed ajwain

pinch of turmeric powder

pinch of asafoetida powder

salt as required

1.5 tbsp butter or

3 tbsp hot oil

oil to deep fry

mix the flours well, then add butter and make a crumble of the flours , add ajwain , chili powder, salt, , asafoetida powder , add water slowly to mak e a smooth firm dough

, shape into round murukku with help of a muruku press or press directly intohot oil as sticks .

make sure oil is heated , well,drop a pinch of dough , it must sizzle and come up immediately, then reduce flame to medium and press the dough into hot oil , allow to cook both sides, these murukku will become crisp on cooling

Moong dal murukku

Moong dal murukku

Ulundh Thenkuzhal / Udad dal murukku

Below another video of udad dal thenkuzhal with small variations , do check them out

Thengoyal murukku / Butter murukku

Butter Murukku

Butter murukku

Below is a video recently uploaded for Butter murukku, do watch .

Cashew murukku

Ribbon pakoda and spicy chakli with same dough

Thengoyal and mullu murukku with coconut flavour

Other ingredients for adding to mixture

1 cup thick poha, deep fried in oil over a colander so that they dont spread all over the hot oil , drain and keep aside

1/4 cup peanuts to be deep fried

handful of curry leaves

1/4 cup cashew nuts

1/2 cup fried gram no need to deep fry if using fresh stock

1/4 cup sliced kopra pieces, deep fried

to prepare the mixture

Take a big bowl, break up all the prepared snacks into smaller pieces

add broken omapodi ( sev ), both varieties of sev prepared from omapodi dough ,

add in the boondi

add in the shakkarpara

add some namak para if you have

add in the ribbon pakoda, and variety of mullu muruku , broken into smaller pieces

add in the nuts, fried gram, curry leaves

add generous pinch of asafoetida powder,

salt as needed,

add the fried kopra pieces, now mix the contents well, shaking them

thats it !

There is no particular recipe as such , mixture is what the name says, a mix of all fried snacks.

You can prepare excellent mixture with just two variety of snacks like just omapodi and boondi , and add in other garnishing like peanuts, fried gram etc

Diwali mixture

Below is a complete video of the Diwali mixture preparation with individual snacks recipes . Do watch ,

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