12:40 pm by Unknown
By : Mahimaa Ramkumar
Ingredients:
2 cups - Murmura (puffed rice or pori)
1 tsp - Oil
1/4 tsp - mustard seeds
A pinch of turmeric powder
1/4 tsp - Red chilli powder
1/4 tsp - Hing
A few sprigs - Curry leaves
Salt
2 tbsp - Onion chopped
2 tbsp - Carrot (grated)
1 Cucumber chopped
2 tbsp - Bell pepper chopped
2 tbsp - Tomato chopped
Coriander leaves to garnish
1/4 tsp - Lime juice
Sweet chutney (optional) - but tastes good when added
Method
Heat oil in a wide pan.
Add mustard seeds followed by turmeric powder, hing, chilli powder, salt and curry leaves.
When mustard seeds crackle, add murmura.
Fry on low heat for a couple of minutes so that the spices get nicely mixed with murmura. Set aside.
In the same pan, add 1/2 tsp of oil, fry onions till the raw smell goes off.
Now mix onions and rest of the ingredients with murmura and stir well.
Squeeze lime juice in the end or drizzle sweet chutney if you like.
Recipe for sweet chutney: Grind some dates and tamarind (a small piece) with water to a sauce like consistency or heat 3 tbsp of jaggery mixed with very little water for 2 minutes and drizzle on top of bhel in the end.
12:44 pm by Unknown
By: manjulaskitchen
Ingredients
3 cups puffed rice (murmura, kurmura) available in Indian grocery stores.
1 cup fine sav (vermicelli-like snack made from gram flour) available in Indian grocery stores.
1 cup papdi broken in small pieces (recipe you can find on my web site) or available in Indian grocery stores.
1/2 cup of chopped boiled potatoes
1/2 cup of chopped cucumber
1/2 cup of chopped tomatoes remove the seeds
About 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
About 1/2 teaspoon salt (or to your taste)
About 4 tablespoon of hari cilantro chutney
About 4 tablespoon of tamarind chutney
1 tablespoon minced green pepper optional
For Garnish
1/4 cup fine sav
About 2 tablespoons lemon juice
Method
1.In frying pan over medium heat dry roast the puffed rice for 3 to 4 minutes. Let it cool of.
2.Combine the dry ingredients puffed rice, sav, papdi and salt together mix well. Keep aside till ready to serve.
3.Mix chopped potatoes, cucumber, tomatoes, cilantro and minced green pepper if like hot and keep aside.
4.When ready to serve mix dry ingredients and potato mix.
5.Add cilantro and tamarind chutneys to your taste making sure chutneys should coat the Bhel Puri.
6.Garnish with sav and drizzle the lemon juice to taste.
7.serve immediately,
Tips
1.Puffed rice (murmura) with time looses some of the crispness by roasting crispness and freshness is back.
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