Roasted Almonds & Fox Nuts

Roasted Almonds & Fox Nuts

Roasted Almonds & Fox Nuts

Keeping my Mid meal Snack healthy is a battle I Fight everyday and well today it became an easy peasy one with this gorgeous Roasted Almonds and Fox nuts sautéed in Ghee or clarified Butter.
Fox nuts also known as Makhana is used in many Indian recipes and is a hot favourite during Navratri's or fasts. Hence I thought to make my own fasting snack which is packed with wholesome health and happiness.
Fox nuts are high in Fibre and low in calories and is an excellent source of Iron, calcium, protein, zinc, magnesium. I always keep a small box full of these so I can eat them when hungry rather than eating those packet chips and then crying over excessive weight.It only takes 5 minutes to make these. So lets get started.

Preparation Time : 2 minutes
Cooking Time : 5 minutes
Serves : 2

Ingredients :

1 cup fox nuts
1/2 cup Almonds
1 tsp Black pepper
1/2 tsp sesame seeds
1 tsp Rock salt ( also known as sendha namak) 
1 tbsp Ghee or clarified butter

Method :

Heat a sauce pan on medium flame and add ghee to it.
Now add fox nuts and almonds to it and stir it for 2 minutes.
Add black pepper and rock salt to it.
Once the almonds start turning dark brown and fox nuts turn crispy, add sesame seeds.
Toss the entire mix and turn off the flame.
Let it cool on a wire rack.
Once cool then store them in an air tight container for future.

P.S - You can also add walnuts or cashews to this mix and incase you have a sweet tooth then add few raisins too.

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