Namkeen Jave

Namkeen Jave or savory vermicelli is an easy dish of vermicelli, onion, potato, green chili, and basic spices. Its taste is sweet and savory. Serving jave with yogurt or buttermilk in breakfast and even is also good to serve at snack time. Namkeen jave is the perfect, easy, and quick breakfast at a time that gives you a delicious taste!

About Namkeen Jave:-

Namkeen jave or savory vermicelli that needs normal ingredients to prepare and cook within a few minutes. It is a healthy and quick breakfast for everyone. It is a common North Indian staple but I think it is used to serve across all states of India.

Jave is made, with any of these wheat flour, fine flour, and semolina dough. I always see my mother preparing it with her hands and drying it in the sunshine. She doesn’t like to buy it from the market because she does not like the taste of market vermicelli. By profession, she is a teacher but she always saves time for this thing because she enjoying to do it. When I was a kid I also did with fun this process but now I feel too lazy to do all this stuff. I prefer to buy it from the market which saves my time.

Jave is of two different types one is sweet vermicelli which needs milk, sugar, and nuts, and cooks until it has a fine creamy thick texture. The second one is savory vermicelli which needs chopped tomato, potato, green chili, and basic spices and cooked until they have a fluffy texture.

Namkeen jave is a good and healthy breakfast and also good to eat at tea time. But In our home, everyone likes to eat jave at breakfast. This namkeen jave is also a good pack for school and office lunch boxes.

How to make namkeen jave:-

1.There are two types of vermicelli available in the market roasted and unroasted. Purchasing roasted vermicelli saves your roasting time.

But if you purchase unroasted then roast 1 cup of vermicelli with adding 1 tbsp ghee in a pan on medium flame. It takes 6 – 8 minutes. Roast it until they have a little brown texture like this.

2. Then in the same pan add 1 tsp mustard oil with 1 tsp cumin seeds on medium heat and let them sizzle.

3. When cumin seeds start to crackle add chopped onions and saute them until they have a little golden texture.

4. Then add chopped potato, green chili,1/2 tsp turmeric powder, and salt to taste.

5. Add 1-2 tbsp water. Mix them well. Then cook the potatoes until they are soft covering the pan on low heat.

6. When potatoes are soft then add vermicelli.

7. Then add 1.5 cups of water or the vermicelli covers properly and cook on low to medium flame while covering the pan until they have a fluffy and soft texture.

8. Stir in between so that the vermicelli does not stick at the bottom of the pan.

9. When all the water absorbs properly and has a fluffy and soft texture then turn off the heat.

Serving Suggestions:-

• Serve namkeen jave hot or warm with yogurt or buttermilk.

• Or you can serve it with a cup of tea.

• Serve namkeen jave alone which also tastes too good.