For Seemandam / Valagappu, its a tradition in Tirunelveli to keep Varavarisi as seer bakshanam. Indian pulses like green moong, cow peas, black chick peas, yellow peas dal along with peanut, poha, sesame seeds, rice are all dry roasted and mixed together with salt and spice. A very healthy snack as we are using all healthy pulse and we are dry roasting without frying anything in oil. Especially for valagappu its a tradition to make this nutritional rich dish. We need little patience to finish this dish. So nowadays most of us are getting this varavarisi from Grand Sweets and keeping it for seer bakshanam. But its not a complex dish, so we can very well make this and it would be a healthy snack for kids too. Instead of giving fried snacks this Varavarisi (varapayiru) is a healthy snack too !
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Preparation and Yield:| Preparation time | 1 day |
| Cooking Time | 1 hour |
| Yield | 500gms |
| Recipe Category | Snacks |
| Recipe Cuisine | South Indian |
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Ingredients:
| Yellow peas (Vatana Dal) | 1/2 Cup* |
| Black Chick Peas | 1/2 Cup |
| Green Moong | 1/2 Cup |
| Cow Peas | 1/2 Cup |
| Peanuts | 1 Tablespoon |
| Sesame Seeds | 1 teaspoon |
| Rice | 2 teaspoon |
| Poha | 1 Tablespoon |
| Seedai (Optional) | 1 Cup |
| Salt | 1 Teaspoon |
| Red Chilli Powder | 1 Teaspoon |
| Hing | Hing |
* 1 Cup = 250ml
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Method:
- Wash and soak yellow peas, black chick peas, cow peas and yellow moong separately in water and leave it aside overnight. Next day, drain the water and spread all the pulses separately in a clean white towel and place it in a sunny place to dry completely
- Soak the sesame seeds in water for 10 minute. Also wash the rice and set it aside
- After the pulses are dried up, our dry roasting process starts. Dry roast each pulse separately in medium flame till they are crispy.
- Dry roast washed rice till the rice starts to crackle. Also, dry roast sesame seeds till it starts to crackle
- Dry roast peanuts and poha separately till they are crispy
- Seedai is optional. That is the only ingredient that is oil fried. Just make 1 cup of seedai and it is sufficient
- In a small bowl, mix salt, red chili powder and hing. Add water little and stir well to make a paste
- Take all dry roasted pulses in a bowl, Add the spice paste and mix well.
- Again spread the spice mixed pulses in a plate and keep it in a sunny place to dry up. Store the varavarisi in air-tight container
- The crispy and healthy varavarisi is ready for Seer or for snacks!
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