Introduction: Poha

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Poha is a famous breakfast, snack, and dinner in India, it contains a lot of variety nutrients starting from iron to protein. Going through a spoon of poha in my mouth just makes me want to say Yumm!!! This recipe is very crunchy with nuts as well as a little spice up as well as sour! Poha is made up of flattened rice flakes, and other ingredients. Poha is enjoyable by anyone anytime. In this recipe we will go through the steps of making Poha. This is a quick and easy recipe made in few 15 to 20 minutes. So let's get started with cookin'!

Supplies

  1. 2 cups Flattened rice
  2. 1 chopped red onion
  3. 1in piece of ginger
  4. 1/4 cup of sliced frozen coconut
  5. 3-4 green chillies (depends on the spice level you choose, this can differ from one person to another)
  6. 1/4 cup of peanuts (this is optional, but adding it make it much delicious, or another alternative is cashew nuts)
  7. 1tbsp of bengal gram
  8. 1tbsp of black gram
  9. 1/2tsp of cumin seeds
  10. 1/2tsp of mustard seeds
  11. 1 spring of Curry Leaves
  12. 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder (optional, this is to add natural color)
  13. Salt - as per taste
  14. Lemon- (optional, but if you would like to have it 1-2 lemons work or as per taste)


Serves 4 people

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Amount Per Serving

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Calories 316

Total Fat 0.5g

Cholesterol 0mg

Sodium 8.4mg

Potassium 66mg

Total Carbohydrates 70g

Protein 5.8g

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Prep time: 5-10 minutes

Cook time: 15-20 minutes

Step 1: Prep Time!

  1. start out with chopping your onion and have it aside.
  2. wash your coconut slices and blend them in with a blender until they are slightly flakey and mushy
  3. add chillies as well as ginger to your coconut and blend everything together again.

Step 2: Flame Up Your Pan!

  1. Take out your pan and start out with 2 tbsp of oil on a medium flame.
  2. Add your bengal gram, black gram, cumin seeds, mustard seeds, Curry Leaves and add turmeric and sauté
  3. Add the chopped onions and sauté until golden brown (don't roast them!)


Step 3: Add Your Flattened Rice

  1. Was your flattened rice three times. DO NOT SOAK IT FOR A LONG TIME because it gets mushy and tastes like a dough, it needs to be dry and mushy (as in moderate).
  2. Squeeze the flattened rice until it is in a form of a ball like and add it to your pan.

Step 4: Mix Mix and Mix...

  1. Start mixing it properly until all the lentils and turmeric as well as the onions are together and the poha is pale to bright yellow.
  2. Add your blended coconut-chilli-ginger paste to your poha, and mix it well.
  3. Add salt (I am using Himalayan pink salt, but you can use any different salt as well).
  4. Finally Mix well!



Step 5: Last Touches!

  1. Add some lemon juice, and mix it well.
  2. topple it of with some parsley mix well.


Viola Poha is ready! Pls do let me know how it turned out. do try it you will surely love it, this is a very healthy recipe for vegans and who are not to get their protein and iron as well. Do like and comment down who it turned out for you!

~Thanks for reading!

Until then Peace out!