Bangladeshi recipe
How to make Jhalmuri
ঝালমুড়ি
All over Bengal
Puffed rice tossed with chanachur (a spicy fried snack mix), onion, green chilli, cucumber, coriander and a few drops of mustard oil, sold by street sellers in paper cones. Jhal means spicy and muri means puffed rice.
Ingredients
- 60 g puffed rice (muri)
- 40 g spicy Bombay mix (chanachur)
- 1 small red onion, finely chopped
- ½ small cucumber and 1 small tomato, finely chopped
- 1 green chilli, finely chopped (or less, to taste)
- A handful of fresh coriander, chopped
- 1 teaspoon mustard oil
- Juice of ½ lime
- A pinch of salt and a pinch of ground roasted cumin
Method
- Put the onion, cucumber, tomato, chilli and coriander in a large bowl with the salt, cumin, mustard oil and lime juice, and mix.
- Just before eating, add the puffed rice and chanachur and toss quickly with a spoon.
- Serve at once in bowls or paper cones, before the puffed rice goes soft.
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