Ingredients and Method to make the Healthy south Indian mixture
1 cup golden flax cereal(uncrushed and loosely packed) ( I got this at Trader Joe)
3 cups organic corn flakes (uncrushed and loosely packed) ( I got this at Trader Joe)
3/4 cup dry roasted peanuts
1/2 cup roasted chick peas (pottu kadalai/dalia)
1/2 cup raisin
2 tbsp corn oil (or any other oil)
3 red chillies
6 curry leaves
1/8 tsp asafoetida (hing)
salt to taste
Dry roast red chillies and curry leaves for a few minutes until the chillies start turning darker and the curry leaves look a little dried out. Keep aside to cool.
In a large bowl add the flax cereal and roughly crush it up into smaller pieces. I used the bottom part of a small bowl and used that to press the flax cereal until it broke into little bits.
Keep the flax cereal aside and in the same bowl repeat the process with the corn flakes. Mix together the corn flakes and flax cereal.
Grind the red chillies and the curry leaves in a spice grinder. Add to this, salt and asafoetida and give it a another spin in the spice grinder. Keep aside.
Heat oil in a large heavy bottomed pan, add peanuts, roasted chick peas and raisins to this and saute for a few seconds.
Add the cereal mixture and the ground spice mixture and mix well.
Cool thoroughly and store in an airtight container.
This mixture will keep easily for a 10 to 12 days
Notes
In case you want you can use any other plain unflavored cereal which is not sweet in place of the cereal I have used.
Additionally you can add some dry roasted cashew nuts too along with peanuts
