Jhal Muri is Bengali Street Food, which has numerous versions all across India. Makes an excellent evening snack, or snack-on-while-you-watch-movie-at-home snack! Basically if you ask me, it’s eat-anytime-you-are-hungry-snack. We used to have a different version of this in Gujarat. Here, I am presenting the Bengali / Kolkatta version. I recently made it one day, and…
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Jhal Muri
Jhal Muri is Bengali (Indian) Street Food, which has numerous versions all across India. Made out of puffed rice and various spices and condiments, it makes an excellent evening snack or snack-on-while-you-watch-movie-at-home snack! Basically, if you ask me, it’s eat-anytime-you-are-hungry-snack.
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