East Indian

Muri Makha (Bengali Spiced Puffed Rice)

Name: Muri Makha (Bengali Spiced Puffed Rice)
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: East Indian
Ingredients: 4 cups puffed rice (muri); 1 finely chopped onion; 1 finely chopped tomato; 1/2 finely chopped cucumber; 1 finely chopped green chilies; 2 tbsp mustard oil; 2 tbsp chopped cilantro; 1/2 lemon; 1/2 tsp salt

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Muri Makha (Bengali Spiced Puffed Rice) is East Indian home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

10 min Easy Heart healthy Low sodium Low carb Vegetarian Vegan Pescatarian Halal Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 cups puffed rice (muri)
1 finely chopped onion
1 finely chopped tomato
1/2 finely chopped cucumber
1 finely chopped green chilies
2 tbsp mustard oil
2 tbsp chopped cilantro
1/2 lemon
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Pick over the puffed rice and tip it into a large mixing bowl.
Add the chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and green chili.
Drizzle the mustard oil over everything and add the salt.
Toss well with your hands so the mustard oil coats every grain of puffed rice.
Squeeze the lemon over the top, scatter the cilantro, and serve right away before the puffed rice softens.

Watch how to cook Muri Makha (Bengali Spiced Puffed Rice)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

মুড়ি মাখা রেসিপি। একদম নতুন স্বাদে মুড়ি মাখা। Muri Makha Recipe Bengali। Jhal Muri। ঝাল মুড়ি মাখা Play the video

Serve it with

A East Indian breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Muri Makha (Bengali Spiced Puffed Rice), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The sharp little thing
- Coconut Chutney
  
  15 min

A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Muri Makha (Bengali Spiced Puffed Rice) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Muri Makha (Bengali Spiced Puffed Rice)
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 150 kcal
Protein: 2 g
Carbs: 16 g
Fat: 9 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 380 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Muri Makha (Bengali Spiced Puffed Rice) takes about 10 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.