Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, roasted makhana/fox nuts/lotus seeds. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Makhana is literally lotus flower's seed that grows in water and looks like popcorn. It's has a chewy texture, pretty bland taste, and can be roasted I have yet to find Makhana [Lotus Seeds, Foxnuts] at my everyday grocery store, I get them at Indian/Asian grocery store in dried nuts/spices section. Roasted makhana recipe - makhana or phool makhana or lotus seeds is an ingredient I have seen often living in India.

Roasted Makhana/Fox Nuts/Lotus seeds is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Roasted Makhana/Fox Nuts/Lotus seeds is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have roasted makhana/fox nuts/lotus seeds using 4 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Roasted Makhana/Fox Nuts/Lotus seeds:

1. Get Plain white Makhana (1 packet)
2. Make ready Ghee, black pepper, red chili, turmeric powder, salt, garam masala
3. Get Nutritional benefits: extremely beneficial in maintaining heart health, improving bone health. Good source of protein and also helps to maintain blood sugar and cholesterol level
4. Get Variations: You can use oil in place of ghee if you want. Add all the masalas in oil/ghee before adding Makhanas is also good alternative step

Who should not eat Makhana or fox nuts. Roasted Phool Makhana makes a great healthy snack for kids. This is similar to popcorn and kids will love it for sure. Makhana, also called fox nuts or lotus seeds.

Steps to make Roasted Makhana/Fox Nuts/Lotus seeds:

1. In a heavy bottom pan, take ghee add cumin seeds and black pepper powder. Then add Makhana and mix well. Add red chilli, turmeric powder, salt, garam masala after 2 mins of roasting. Mix well.
2. Keep roasting Makhana till it turns crispy. Add ghee in between, if required. Almost after 7-8 mins, crispy tasty Makhanas will be ready to munch in. Cool it completely and store in a air tight container.
3. If you like sweet spicy Makhanas, add 1 tablespoon of hershey’s chocolate sauce to above step and mix well. Keep the flame off while mixing. Now, chocolate Fox nuts are ready to eat.

This is Popular as a fasting food. It has so many healthy benefits in them. Today i have for you all a healthy, guilt free and easy snack made from puffed lotus seeds. Now that was very new ingredient to us. Out of curiosity my mom picked a.

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