Puffed Rice Upma

      Puffed Rice (Murumura) is a type of puffed grain made from rice, commonly used for breakfast cereal or snack foods, and served as a popular street food in India. This is a quick and easy breakfast recipe with ingredients that are readily available in your pantry. We can add vegetables if needed to make it more healthy.

Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon oil
• ½ teaspoon mustard seeds
• ½ teaspoon cumin seeds
• 10 curry leaves
• ½ teaspoon ginger, finely chopped
• ¼ cup raw peanuts
• ½ cup onion, finely chopped
• 2 green chilies, finely chopped
• ¼ cup green peas
• ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
• 1 small tomato, roughly chopped
• 6 cups puffed rice
• 2 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon coriander leaves, finely chopped
• salt as needed

Method:

• To start making Puffed rice/Murumura upma, heat up a pan with a tablespoon of oil. Once oil heats up, add mustard seeds. Let it splatter. Add cumin seeds, curry leaves, peanuts and sauté for 1 minute on low flame.

• Add onions with a little salt, ginger and green chilies, sauté until transparent. Add peas, turmeric powder, tomatoes and cook for 5 minutes, check salt and switch off.

• Add Murmura to a colander. Run the colander under the water and let it get wet from all sides. Keep the wet murumura aside and let it get soaked by itself.

• Add wet murumura, coriander leaves, lemon juice and stir everything together. 

• Serve immediately for breakfast or snack.