Spicy Masala Puffed Rice Recipe

Puffed rice, generally known as kurmure is a tiny white substance made from rice. Different qualities of puffed rice are available but out of this only 2 or 3 types are more popular. When you talk about this kurmure, automatically you start thinking about chaats, since it's usage is seen in almost all the chaat recipes like bhelpuri and so on. Puffed rice is extremely low in calories and it can be consumed free of guilt. In some places it is used during breakfasts too. The one, which I am sharing today is a very simple one which is quite tasty and consumes less time in preparing it. This recipe is similar to that of poha.

How To Prepare Spicy Masala Puffed Rice 

This recipe is very easy to prepare and the time taken to prepare it is around 10 minutes. The ingredients mentioned here is enough for 2 servings.

Ingredients For Puffed Rice.

• Puffed Rice ( kurmure ) - 2 cups.

• Groundnuts - 3 tbsp.

• Salt - as required.

• Lemon juice - 1 tbsp 

• Curry leaves - 2 strings

• Mustard seeds - 1 / 2 tsp.

• Red chilli - 1.

• Urad dal ( black gram dal ) - 1 tsp.

• Oil - 2 tbsp

• Green chilli - 4.

• Coriander leaves - a few sprigs.

• Sugar - 1 tsp.

• Turmeric powder - 2 tsp

Method To Make Puffed rice Snack.

• Heat a deep nonstick pan with oil in it.

• When heated, add the tempering ingredients like mustard seeds, urad dal, broken red chilli, curry leaves and ground nuts into it.

• When it starts spluttering, add the green chillis, turmeric powder and mix it well.

• Now add salt, sugar and keep the flame very low.

• Take a big vessel filled with 3 - 4 cups of water.

• Rinse the puffed rice in the water for a second, squeeze it and immediately mix it with the tempered items.

• Add lemon juice and chopped coriander leaves.

Your quick and spicy puffed rice is ready to be served.!!!

Kitchen Masti Points 

1. While tempering, you can also mix 1 tbsp of Chana dal for a unique taste.
2. Onions can be mixed along with green chilli.
3. This snack tastes best when it is hot.

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