Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 10 min
Serves: 2 plates

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 2 cups puffed rice or mandakki or churumuri or murmura
2. 2 tbsp ground nut or shenga
3. 2 green chilies
4. 1/2 onion finely chopped
5. 1/2 tomato finely chopped
6. 2 tbsp roasted gram or Putani or Hurigadale
7. 1 tbsp finely chopped coriander leaves
8. 2 tbsp sev or mixture (optional)

Ingredients for curry: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
2. 1/2 tsp jeera or cumin seeds
3. 5 - 6 curry leaves
4. One big pinch turmeric powder
5. 1 - 2 green chilies
6. 3 - 4 cloves of garlic
7. 1 onion finely chopped
8. 1 tomato finely chopped
9. Small gooseberry sized tamarind
10. 1 tsp jaggery or sugar (adjust as per your taste)
11. 2 tbsp roasted gram or Putani or Hurigadale
12. 2 tsp cooking oil
13. Salt as per your taste

Instructions for making girmit:

1. To prepare girmit puffed rice should be very crispy. If it is not crispy, then heat it in a frying pan for few minutes under low flame.
2. Grind 1/2 cup of roasted gram or fried gram into a fine powder and keep it aside.
3. Dry roast groundnuts and keep it aside. You can also use store bought salted or spicy ground nuts.
4. Finely chop onion, tomato, garlic and green chilies required to prepare curry. Also finely chop onion, tomato and coriander leaves required for garnishing.
5. Heat 2 tsp of oil in a frying pan. Make a small slit and fry 2 green chilies and keep it aside.
6. Now to the same pan, add in mustard seeds and cumin seeds. When the mustard seed splutters add in turmeric powder and curry leaves.
7. Add in chopped onion, garlic and green chili. Fry until onions are soft.
8. Add in chopped tomato and fry until tomatoes are soft.
9. Add in tamarind juice and cook until tomatoes are mushy. Add in water if required to get thick gravy consistency.
10. Add in 2 tbsp of fried gram flour from step 1. Also add in salt and jaggery (or sugar).
11. Mix well, switch off the stove and wait until cool.
12. Now to prepare 2 plates of girmit, take 2 cups puffed rice in a big vessel. Add in a laddle full of curry prepared.
13. Add in chopped tomato, onion and coriander leaves.
14. Add in 1 - 2 tbsp of roasted gram powder and sev (or mixture).
15. Give a quick mix and serve it immediately with fried green chillies.

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