Jhaal muri is a simple Bengali snack available as street food. It is a mix of many colourful ingredients and can be prepared in a few minutes if all ingredients are kept ready. Puffed rice is mixed with boiled potato, salad vegetables, dry spices and mustard oil (for binding).
Jhaal muri is a healthy snack because other than potato all other ingredients are used in raw state. This low calorie spicy puffed rice can be served as a snack and can be digested easily. Basically jhaal muri is a hot and spicy snack, but the quantity of red chilli powder and green chilli can be adjusted to suit everyone including children.
I have used raw mango and other easily available vegetables like carrot, cucumber. It is not necessary to have all the ingredients to prepare this jhaal muri (basic ingredients are only: puffed rice, green chilli, onion, sev/namkeen, oil).
Ingredients
- Crisp puffed rice/muri – 3 cup
- Omapodi/kara boondi/namkeen/sev (a type of snack) – 1 cup
- Boiled and chopped potato – 2 heaped tablespoon
- Carrot chopped – 1 heaped tablespoon
- Cucumber chopped – 1 heaped tablespoon
- Coriander chopped – 1 heaped tablespoon
- Coconut chopped – 1 tablespoon
- Green chilli chopped – 1 no
- Raw mango chopped – 1 heaped tablespoon
- Tomato seeds removed and chopped – 1 heaped tablespoon
- Onion chopped – 1 heaped tablespoon
- Roasted peanut – 1 heaped tablespoon
- Red chilli powder – 1 teaspoon (adjust as per taste)
- Chat masala – half teaspoon
- Mustard oil – 1 tablespoon
- Salt – as per taste (use less salt as puffed rice, omapodi/boondi, chat masala have salt already in them)
Method
- Take all ingredients in a bowl and add red chilli powder, chat masala except mustard oil.
- Mix and toss well without spilling.
- Add mustard oil at last and mix well.
- Serve immediately.
- Serving: keep all ingredients chopped and ready; just before serving mix all ingredients.
Tips
- Use thick skinned tomato as it has less juice.
- If raw mango is not available, use few drops of lime juice.
- If you have sprouted/roasted moong dal, kaala chana etc., you can add them also.
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Muri mixture,looks so tempting ,a pretty much easeist eve snack..
Irresistible jhaal muri..
ahhhh! lovely!
Wow! Mouth watering!