Today’s post is ‘Nylon Diet Poha’. It is a low calorie roasted very thin flattened rice (poha) snack. A very healthy chivda/namkeen recipe. Enjoy this snack as a tea-time snack or mid-meal healthy snack.

In this recipe, poha is roasted for few minutes, then tempered with dry fruits, peanuts, green chilies, curry leaves and few spices. It is a quick snack. While purchasing nylon poha, carefully check poha, you do not want regular poha for this recipe. You can store it in an air tight container for a week.

For more poha recipes, check – Poha Cutlets (Flattened Rice Potato Crispy Cutlets), Poha Chivda Recipe (Fried sweet n sour flattened rice), Poha Recipe (Quick spicy flattened Rice), Crsipy Onion Samosa, how to make onion samosa | Irani Samosa .

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Yield: 300 gms Diet Poha

Duration: 20 mins

Ingredients for Diet Poha

Nylon poha	250 gms
Peanuts	1 cup
Chana Dal	1/4 cup
Green chilies (finely chopped)	3 large
Dry Coconut (sliced)	2-3 Tsp
Curry leaves	1 sprig
Powdered Sugar	2 tsp
Citric acid (powdered)	1/2 tsp or as per taste
Salt	1 tsp or as per taste
Turmeric powder	1/2 tsp
Oil	3 Tbsp

Method for Diet Poha

• In a deep pan, roast poha till it turns crunchy and slightly brown in color.

• Keep poha aside.

• Heat oil in a kadhai or wok, fry peanuts.

• When peanuts are fried properly, strain oil and keep it aside.

• In the same oil, fry coconut slices. When coconut slices are golden brown in color, strain slices and keep with peanuts.

• In the same oil, fry chana dal, green chilies, and curry leaves.

• When green chilies start turning golden, add turmeric and cook for 3-4 secs.

• Immediately add roasted poha.

• In the poha, add fried peanuts, fried coconut slices, powdered sugar, powdered citric acid, and salt.

• Mix everything well. If required your hands for mixing it, not mandatory but if you feel spoon is not helping.

• Serve hot!