By Heta Joshi
March 14, 2024
Known locally as “murmura,” puffed rice is a highly nutritious food item that boasts a series of health benefits, including aiding in digestion and weight management. Being versatile, it’s also quite easy to incorporate puffed rice into numerous dishes. Let’s explore.
Garnish your granola breakfast with puffed rice to jumpstart your day with an added burst of crunch and flavour.
Toss puffed rice with crispy sev, savoury chutneys, veggies, and crushed puris to craft a delightfully tangy evening snack.
Combine puffed rice with veggies, roasted peanuts, and spices, such as mustard to prepare a lip-smacking Kolkata street food.
Mix puffed rice with ingredients, such as curry leaves, peanuts, chaat masala, and boondi to create a light and healthy evening snack.
Blend puffed rice with jaggery and nuts, and shape the concoction into round laddoos to savour a delicious as well as a nourishing sweet treat.
Assemble puffed rice, almonds, jaggery, and pumpkin seeds to make enriching puffed rice chikkis, which can be savoured as snacks or desserts.
Combine chopped mangoes with raw milk, and top off the concoction with puffed rice to form a creamy and nurturing breakfast dish.