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Hello everyone, Evening snack is often the tricky part for most people whether staying at home or going to office. For those staying at home, they have access to fresh and healthy snacks, which are relatively easy, except for the time crunch, thereby requiring planning and preparation. After fresh fruits, seeds and nuts, our go-to snack option was kara- pori (a combo of puffed rice, roasted chana and peanuts) for a long time which seemed perfect as it was filling and healthy. Only prerequisite was that we had to make it at regular intervals where we spent 15- 20 minutes and it would last us for 3-4 days. Days and months passed, we wanted to have something unique and wondered what can be had with limited preparation time. One fine evening while scrolling through videos on YouTube, we landed on chatpata makhanas  (you can check the original recipe by clicking on the link) and we were instantly sold on this idea of transforming plain and humble makhanas to something extraordinary....

Hello folks, Sev Khamani also known as Amiri khaman is a popular snack in Surat wherein crumbled khamans are topped with nylon sev, pomegranate arils, fresh grated coconut and green chutney (optional). We were introduced to the dish through a Gujarati recipe show which we used to watch regularly and note down the ones we intended to try out. It is inherently a steamed snack and also protein rich snack owing to use of chana dal/ chickpea flour. There are two methods of preparing it. The first one uses dhoklas made with fermented chana dal batter and the second one is a quicker version made with khaman. We did not note down this recipe. However, a couple of days later, an idea struck us as to why not prepare it with millets. That lead to this recipe generation. We went ahead with the instant version and chose finger millet/ ragi flour. For getting a light and crumbly texture, we had to add sooji and thereby chose to proceed with equal parts of ragi flour, besan and sooji. For extra crunc...