Simple, practical, and full of everyday flavour, Oats Chivda is a vegetarian Indian snacks made with simple everyday ingredients in about 20 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.

Recipe Snapshot

  • Prep time: 5 minutes
  • Cook time: 15 minutes
  • Total time: 20 minutes
  • Yield: 2 · 2 to 3
  • Category: Snacks
  • Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients

  • 1 cup oats ((quick cooking oats))
  • 1 tablespoon oil for tempering
  • 5 to 6 almonds
  • 5 to 6 cashews
  • 1 tablespoon peanuts
  • 1 tablespoon golden raisins
  • ½ teaspoon sugar
  • 1 pinch asafoetida ((hing))
  • 1 to 2 green chilies (- sliced or slit)
  • 8 to 10 curry leaves
  • salt as per taste

Method

roasting oats

  1. Measure all the ingredients and keep them separately in a plate or bowl.
  2. Heat a kadai first. Reduce the flame to a low and then add 1 cup quick cooking oats in a hot kadai or pan.
  3. Roast the oats on a low flame. Do keep stirring continuously while roasting oats.
  4. When the oats become light brown in color and are fragrant & crisp, then switch off the flame. Just ensure they don't brown too much.
  5. Transfer the oats in another plate.

roasting oats chivda ingredients

  1. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in the same pan. Add 1 tablespoon of peanuts and fry them till they become crunchy and their color changes.
  2. Place the peanuts on a plate lined with a kitchen paper towel.
  3. Then add fry 5 to 6 almonds till they become crisp and light brown in color.
  4. Remove them and place the almonds on the same plate lined with paper towel.
  5. Similarly fry 5 to 6 cashews till they become golden. Remove them and keep aside.
  6. Fry the raisins till they swell and become plump. Keep aside.
  7. Keep the flame to a low. Then in the same pan, add 8 to 10 curry leaves, 1 to 2 chopped green chilies and a pinch of asafoetida.
  8. Add ½ teaspoon of sugar. Stir and saute for some seconds till the green chilies and curry leaves become crisp.

making oats chivda

  1. Add the remaining fried ingredients - peanuts, raisins and cashews. Mix very well.
  2. Then add the roasted oats.
  3. Mix the oats mixture very well. sprinkle salt as required.
  4. On a low flame, saute for 2 to 3 mins. Then switch off the flame. Remove and keep aside in a separate plate.
  5. Let the chivda mixture cool at room temperature and then store in an air-tight box and container. Serve the oats chivda as tea time snack or as a diwali savory snack.

Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note

Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.