Jhal Muri Recipe
Jhal muri is a delicious and filling street style snack from Kolkata. A tasty, flavorful mixture with myriad of textures this is an excellent snack for your evening hunger pangs. Jhal means spicy and muri means puffed rice, so jhal muri means spicy puffed rice with other interesting add-ons. It is a snack similar to bhel puri, churmuri, kara pori from various regions of India.
Servings: 3
Calories: 121kcal
Ingredients
Ingredients For Jhal Muri
- 1.5 cups puffed rice
- 1/2 cup roasted peanuts
- 1 medium potato boiled, peeled and mashed
- 1/4 cup finely chopped onion
- 1/4 cup finely chopped tomatoes
- 1/4 cup grated carrots
- 2 green chilies thinly sliced
- salt to taste
- juice from 1 lemon
- 2 tablespoons chopped coriander leaves
- fine sev or chana chur as required
- 1 teaspoon mustard oil
To make muri masala
- 1/4 teaspoon chaat masala powder
- 1/4 teaspoon red chili powder
- 1/4 teaspoon coriander powder
- 1/4 teaspoon roasted cumin powder
- 1/4 teaspoon dry mango powder or amchur
- 1/4 teaspoon black salt
Instructions
- Boil, peel and mash the potatoes well.
- In the mean time dry roast muri or puffed rice well for 5-6 minutes in low flame. Remove to plate.
- In the same pan dry roast peanuts with little salt until well crispy and charred.
- Combine peeled and grated carrots, very finely chopped onions, tomatoes and green chilies.
- To that add all the spice powder and salt. Mix very well.
- Add roasted puffed rice and peanuts. Also add mustard oil. Mix thoroughly.
Notes
You can double the recipe
If any of the spice powders or other add ons are not available you can just leave it out.
Nutrition
Serving: 3g | Calories: 121kcal