I’ve been meaning to post this healthy cornflake snack recipe up before Chinese New Year but I was kinda busy the last week so I didn’t have time to put this up. Anyway, we still have one day to CNY so, what the heck. Might as well post it up! This is a very simple and darn easy recipe for a wonderful snack to serve your guests during Chinese New Year or simply just to enjoy yourself.
I call it Crunchy Chili Cornflakes. It is a Malaysianised cornflake snack and no, you don’t serve it with milk. It is generally eaten as a snack, you know, like eating chips. Only, this is healthier, minus the salt and sodium and oil. You can even get whole wheat corn flakes for it to be even more wholesome. I know this is not really one of the foods that help your lose weight (as in my fat burning food list) but it has chillies in it so…it is not all that bad.
So, here is the recipe for:
Crunchy Chili Cornflakes
Ingredients
2 cups cornflakes
1 cup plain roasted peanuts
1 cup plain roasted almonds (or raw if you prefer)
1 cup plain roasted sunflower seeds / kernels (or raw if you prefer)
1 cup fresh curry leaves
4 – 6 pc dried chilies
1 tbsp butter (or for a healthier version, olive oil)
Instructions
These are the curry leaves I used
The curry leaves have this rich spicy scent that I simply love.
I used only four medium size dried chilies so that it would not be too spicy. Remember to cut it into four pieces and don't remove the seeds or else it won't be as fragrant.
And, here's the regular cornflakes I used
1. Heat up the pan / wok. Spray it with cooking spray or pour in the olive oil or the butter.
2. Then, throw in the chilies. Stir fry it till it is very fragrant.
3. Add in the curry leaves and continue to stir fry over medium heat
4. Make sure the leaves and chilies are very fragrant before you add in the almonds and peanuts.
5. Add in the sunflower kernels and cornflakes and stir fry for a few more minutes to get all the flavours mixed up and nicely fragrant.
6. Remove from heat, let it cool and then store in an airtight container. Serve as snacks.
The best part about this Crunchy Chili Cornflakes snack is that you can substitute the peanuts/ almonds/ sunflower seeds with cashew nuts or any other nuts you fancy. But I love almonds and peanuts so I used those to go with the sunflower seeds.
This snack has a tinge of spiciness with a rich spicy scent from the curry leaves. The best part is that the curry leaves (and the chilies) would have been very crispy from being fried so those are edible too! If you want it to be extra spicy, then just add more dried chilies.
This snack takes about 15 minutes to prepare so it is very easy and importantly, it is also very good. So good that I ate almost half of it while waiting for it to cool. Heheh.
Crunchy Chili Cornflakes
This is a really wonderful snack for Chinese New Year (though it definitely won’t help you lose weight!). Happy Chinese New Year to all of you celebrating it and those who aren’t celebrating it, happy holidays. Or if it’s not a holiday where you stay, well, er, happy weekend.
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Oh looks great.
Have you had Chex Mix? Similar sort of thing, but with Chex cereal. Yours looks much better, though. Love the nuts and chili!
xo
+Jessie
a.k.a. The Hungry Mouse
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Never saw here this type of snack very and tasty idea a mix chili and nuts!!
Happy Chinese New Year Foong!!
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Very cool! I’ve never seen this before, but it makes perfect sense. This would make a great snack. I love curry leaves.
Happy Niu Year!
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What a fun recipe!
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Jessie: No, I’ve not tried Chex Mix but it sounds good.
Gera: Yes, adding the chili adds spice to a bland snack.
Nate: The curry leaves are probably the main ingredient of this snack as it is the main flavour in the whole snack.
meg: thanks!
Hmmm.. I thought I had left my comment here earlier. The spam master had been cruel to me everywhere I has step food in.. LOL!
Anyway, that’s a great idea for a snack.
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Criz: Hmmm…I never did check the spam comments. Usually, if you don’t add extra links other than the commenluv link, your comments should not have been caught as spam. Well, at least this comment came through.
I am having something like that right now. I bought it at an Indian grocery store in downtown Cleveland Oh (Chesterfield Bldg.).
Thanks for the recipe I can now make it myself.