Jhaal Muri – Kolkata Puffed Rice Snack
Jhaal Muri - Kolkata Puffed Rice Snack
Jhaal muri is a popular street food snack of Kolkata. Jhaal means spices and muri is puffed rice. A long time ago, I visited my uncle in Kolkata and I still remember this mouthwatering snack. This puffed rice is tossed with potato, cucumber, tomatoes. A special blend of spices including tamarind pulp, and mustard oil are also added to jhaal muri. This is a simple yet delicious snack.
Ingredients
- 4 cups murmura/ muri (puffed rice)
- 1/4 cup fine sev (bengal gram vermicelli)
- 1/4 cup peanuts
- 1 teaspoon oil
- 1/2 cup potato boiled, peeled and cut into small pieces
- 1/2 cup tomato finely chopped, seeded
- 1/2 cup cucumber finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons green chili, finely chopped, adjust to taste
- 2 tablespoons cilantro finely chopped (hara dhania)
- 1/4 cup tamarind paste
- 4 teaspoons mustard oil
Spice Mix
- 4 teaspoons roasted cumin seeds powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black salt
- 1 teaspoon mango powder (amchoor)
- 1 teaspoon red chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon garam masala
4 slices of lemon for garnishing
Instructions
How to make Bengali Jhaal Muri
- Combine all the dry spices together. Set aside.
- Heat a 1 teaspoon of oil in a small pan on medium heat, add peanuts and roast stirring continuously till lightly brown. This should take about 2 minutes. Set aside.
- Dry roast the muri/puffed rice on medium heat for about 3 minutes. Notes: muri should not change color, they should be white but roasting gives freshness and make them crispy. Set aside.
- Just before ready to serve jhaal muri add the peanuts, sev, tomato, potato, cucumber, green chili, cilantro, tamarind paste, mustard oil and spices. Toss them and serve.
- You may adjust all the ingredients to your taste. Enjoy!
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Of course, thank you so much Manjula…always my favorite cook. I am making this for my family…I will only add chopped chives or green onion….Wonderful.
ymmy.so tasty.thanks
hi!!!!!
great recipe!!!!!
thank you!
I am going to prepare this for my wife as Jhaal Muri is her favorite 🙂 Thanks for sharing.
Regards
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RecipesOnBoard
Very nice
Dear Ma’am,
Pl give me some more recipes, as I need working in a boarding school where only vegetables
Very nice
I made it and it would have been perfect if I hadn’t used tamarind concentrate. I put in a couple heaping teaspoons of that and it was too sour. Next time I’ll just use a tiny bit or leave it out. Thank you for the delicious recipe. It was exactly what I was seeking.
Jhaal muri one of the known street food of the Bombay and Kolkata. Apart from using peanuts in bhel puri, people can add some raisins and kaju to make it tastier or what we called shahi bhel puri chat.
I love Kolkata foods. Be it a street food or in a reputed restaurants. I just love all the flavors of Kolkata food.
Mam.your recipes are very useful to me.thankyou so much
Manjulaji,
This is a wonderful recipe and authentically delicious on its own.
But I am from Kolkata and I can confirm this is not how kolkata jhal muri is made.
You dont put garam masala or tamarind pulp in jhal muri. also two main ingredients are missing -boiled black chana and pickle masala (any of your choice like mango, lime etc).
Hi, do you use Muri- oil fried in a bag for this recipe or not oil fried? Thank you so much for sharing your recipe!
not oil fried