Mouthwatering Misal! The popular Maharashtrian snack food with a healthier recipe in a pressure pan and Instant Pot . This recipe serves 4 to 6 misal lovers!

Mouthwatering Misal! The popular Maharashtrian snack food is a perfect party dish. Indfused’s recipe is healthier and can be made in a pressure pan and Instant Pot.

Friday evenings at our house have long been designated the ‘snacks for dinner’ evenings. When the children were little, they called it Family time Fridays….yes no surprise there…. our family always bonds over food 🙂  With the wide array of mouth watering, tantalizing and tempting snacks from around the world to choose from, making the snacks our main course, made sense.  Just in India alone, the different states have their own special tea time and tiffin snacks, and the aroma drifting from the street food carts tempt your taste buds at every city corner.

One such dish is the Misal in the state of…

POP Chivda  made of Pohe, Oats and Papad that is ready in 6 minutes in the microwave and one that you just cannot resist ‘popping’ in your mouth!

Microwave Chivda with Oats and Papad !

Microwave chivda with Oats and Papad

Are you taking a car trip this Memorial Day weekend? Do you pack snacks in the car that are “for the kids”? Then you are like me!

This 6 minute microwave chivda, which I call my microwave POP chivda, is one snack I will not leave home without 😉 It is crispy, savory and a much lighter and healthier version of readymade chivda available in the stores. Also chivda available in the stores is generally made of deep fried or roasted poha. I add the oats and papad in my recipe which add nutrition and varied textures to the chivda.

The POP stands for Poha, Oats and Papad. This…