Roasted gram or Varu payaru as its called in Tamil , is a forgotten snack , which is very healthy and rice in protein. Its specially good for growing children and canbe introduced as a snack or tea time munchies . They are excellent diet snacks too for the calorie conscious . The roasted grams are of different variety in Varu Payaru , and its tasty and crunchy .too Its requires a variety of easily available lentils / gram and few other ingredients . The procedure to make the snack too is not very elaborate . It just needs a bit of patience .
Generally Varu payaru is prepared during Seemantham and its generally offered to pregnant women .
Ingredients
Ingredients
- Kondakadalai ( chick peas ) 2 cups
- Mochaikottai ( field beans ) 2 cups
- Pachai payaru ( whole ) Green gram 2 cups
- Kollu or horse gram 2 cups
- Cow peas 2 cups
- Sesame seeds ( white ) 2 cups
- Beaten rice flakes ( Aval ) 1 cup
- Groundnuts 2 cups
- Coconut ( Cut into thin slices ) 1 cup
- Salt Cheedais 1/2 cup
- Salt 1/2 cup
- Red chilies Powder 1 cup
- Turmeric Powder 2 tablespoons
- Asafoetida or Hing 1 teaspoon
Method
Method
- Soak all the pulses / cereals (Chickpeas, Green gram , Horsegram, Cowpeas , Mochai ) for 8 hours, separately . Soak the Sesame seeds for 2 hours or so.
- Wash each separately and drain well . Spread on a muslin cloth and dry in shade . make sure the cereals are dried well.
- Ina earthen kadai or deep pan , and heat it in low flame . Dry roast the cereals , one by one , patiently in low heat .
- See to that they are well roasted and they puff or splutter , indicating they are well roasted .
- Dry roast the Aval , coconut slices and ground nuts too , one by one , till they are crisp .
- Mix all the ingredients together , add salt , chili powder , hing , and turmeric powder .
- Mix and make a fantastic cereal mixture ready .