Cornflakes Chivda (Cornflakes Mixture)

A very healthy snack, ideal for the tea time.

Ingredients:
500g Cornflakes sugar coated, caramel or the normal one
100g Sugar
3 tsp Salt
50g Roasted Groundnuts
50g Roasted cashewnuts
50g Roasted almonds
50g Orange rind (tooti- fruiti)
50g Rice flakes (poha)
50 g raisins
3-4 tbsp Dried coconut powder (optional)
5 tb sp Oil or Ghee
2 tbsp Red chilli powder
1 tb sp of turmeric powder
Handful of Curry leaves

Method:
Roast the nuts and raisins one by one in ghee or oil and keep it separately
Take the cornflakes in a big vessel. If sugar coated cornflakes is not used , add the required amount of sugar according to your taste and mix well.
Add the roasted nuts, raisins, orange rind and mix together.
In a frying pan take ghee or oil and fry the rice flakes till it pops up.
Add it to the cornflakes mixture.
Add required amount of salt and mix well.
Add powdered dry coconut powder.
Take a little ghee or oil add the chilli powder, turmeric powder and curry leaves. Let the powder fry. Don’t allow it to burn. Add this hot oil to the cornflakes and mix well. If the oil is not enough to coat the cornflakes , warm more oil and mix together.
For better taste ghee can be used instead of oil.