Chevro

Name: Chevro
Ingredients: 4 oz pawa (flaked, beaten rice); 4 oz fried moong dhal; 4 oz fried channa dhal; 5 oz potato sticks (crisps shaped like small, thin sticks); 8 oz puffed rice; 8 oz fried sev (thin strings of spicy gram flour; they look like noodles); ½ cup chopped fresh coriander leaves; 8 oz peanuts unsalted; 2 tbsp turmeric; 1 green chilli; 1 tbsp (or more if you want) chilli powder; 1½ tbsp sugar; 1 tbsp whole black mustard seeds; 5 curry leaves; 9 oz whole almonds; 2 tbsp powdered citric acid; ¼ cup sunflower oil; 6 oz cashew nuts (plain); 1 tbsp paprika; 1 tbsp salt; More oil for deep frying

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Settler's Cookbook

By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Published 2009

About

Ingredients

8 oz puffed rice
4 oz pawa (flaked, beaten rice)
4

Main course
Vegetarian

Method

Have ready a very large container or bucket, and line it with clean dishcloths.
Heat frying oil, and very quickly flash-fry pawa which has been placed in a stainless-steel colander; it only takes a minute.
Drain on kitchen paper.
In the bucket or large pan mix the dhals, pawa, sev, rice puffs and potato crisps, and shake the bucke