Fragrant, comforting, and easy to serve as a complete meal, Puffed Rice Recipe | Murmura Recipe is a vegan, vegetarian Gujarati, Indian snacks made with simple everyday ingredients in about 5 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.

Recipe Snapshot

  • Prep time: 1 minutes
  • Cook time: 4 minutes
  • Total time: 5 minutes
  • Yield: 3
  • Category: Snacks
  • Cuisine: Gujarati, Indian

Ingredients

  • 2 cups puffed rice (- murmura, pori, mandakki, muri)
  • ½ teaspoon turmeric powder
  • 1 pinch asafoetida ((hing) - optional)
  • 1 sprig curry leaves (10 to 12 curry leaves)
  • 2 teaspoons oil
  • black salt (or white salt or himalayan pink salt- add as per taste)
  • 1 to 2 tablespoon sev ((finer variety) - optional)
  • 1 potato - (medium-sized, boiled, peeled and chopped - optional)

Method

  1. In a heavy pan or wok, heat oil. Keep the flame to a low and add the curry leaves.
  2. Fry for some seconds till the curry leaves become crisp. Add the turmeric and asafoetida.
  3. Quickly stir and immediately add the puffed rice. Take care so as to not to burn the spices.
  4. Roast the puffed rice for a couple of minutes till they become crisp. Do not brown them.
  5. Add salt and mix again.
  6. Let the puffed rice snack cool at room temperature.
  7. When serving murmura chaat, add some boiled potatoes and top up with sev. You can drizzle some lemon juice if you want.

Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note

Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.