Garam Pori (Puffed Rice)

A healthy snack cum starter for a monsoon evening, garam pori with a garam chai may go hand in hand. A tons of minerals are lost in the cooked or boiled vegetables, when you eat them raw you get them back in lots. Have a happy tea-time!!

Garam pori

Ingredients

Grated carrot - 1 cup

Grated beetroot - 1 cup

Finley chopped big onion - 2 medium size

Green chili paste - (2 or 3 numbers as per taste)

Salt to taste

Lemon juice - 1 tsp

Coriander leaves chopped - 1 tbsp

Mixture or ompodi or karaboondhi or crossed pani poories (add any one item whatever available at home for crunchy taste) - 1 cup

Puffed rice (Pori) as per requirement

Coconut oil - 1 or 2 tsp

Method

Add the items listed from 1 to 7 in a big size bowl and mix well.

Mix the puffed rice (required quantity) with coconut oil, to enhance the taste, in another bowl.

Now add the prepared puffed rice and anyone of the items given in the list number 8 with the vegetable mixture prepared in the 1^st step.

Tips

It is better to add the puffed rice and item no. 8 before serving. It might become soggy and may not taste good even if it was prepared before 5 minutes.