Preparation time: 5 hr
Cooking time: 10 min
Serves: 1.5 cup

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 1 cup avarekalu or hyacinth beans
2. 0.5 cup thick beaten rice or poha or avalakki
3. 2 tbsp ground nuts or peanuts or shenga
4. 2 tbsp fried gram or hurigadale
5. Oil for deep frying
6. 1/2 tsp red chili powder (adjust as per your spice level)
7. 2 big pinch of hing or asafoetida
8. 2 big pinch of turmeric powder
9. 7 - 8 curry leaves
10. Salt as per your taste

Instructions for making avarekalu mixture:

1. I have used this type of beans, which is popular by name avarekai in Kannada language. Only the inside beans are used in the cooking.
2. Peal the avarekai or hyacinth beans and collect 2 cups of beans. Soak them in the water for 4 - 5 hours or overnight.
3. After soaking remove the outer skin of the beans or avarekalu to get "hitikida or hisukida" avarekalu. Spread them on a cotton cloth to remove the excess water content.
4. Now take oil in a deep frying pan and heat it. Fry the deskinned avarekalu until crisp.
5. Fry thick poha or gatti avalakki until crisp. Switch off the stove.
6. Now take a tsp of oil in another pan and heat it. Add in ground nuts or peanuts and fry until crisp.
7. Next add in curry leaves and fry until crisp. You can also fry and add thinly sliced dry coconut.
8. Switch off the stove and add in all the spice powders like chili powder, asafoetida and turmeric powder. Also add in salt, fried gram (hurigadale), deep fried avarekalu and thick poha (gatti avalakki). Give a quick stir and is done. Enjoy crispy and tasty avarekalu mixture.

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