Hubballi Dharwad

Girmit

Name: Girmit
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: North Karnataka
Ingredients: 4 cups kadlepuri puffed rice; 1 large finely chopped onion; 1 large finely chopped tomato; 1 tbsp cooking oil (vegetable oil); 1/2 tsp mustard seeds; 1/4 tsp turmeric (ground turmeric); 2 chopped green chilli; 1 sprig curry leaves; a small piece as thick pulp tamarind; 2 tsp jaggery; 1 tsp red chilli powder (indian red chili powder); 3 tbsp putani powdered roasted chana dal (roasted split chickpeas); 1/2 cup sev; a handful coriander leaves (cilantro); 1/2 lemon; Salt, to taste

Kadlepuri tossed in a hot tamarind onion masala. North Karnataka's evening crunch.

15 minTime

8 gProtein each

mediumSpice

The Hubballi evening snack3 chapters · 2 min read

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Grandma's wayDavangere puffed rice, putani pudi and plenty of tamarind.

The original

361kcal

8 gprotein

5 gfibre

15minutes

Girmit as the Hubballi Dharwad bandis serve it.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.

Ingredients

Puffed rice4 cups kadlepuri

Onion1 large, finely chopped

Tomato1 large, finely chopped

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)1 tbsp

Mustard seeds½ tsp

Turmeric (ground turmeric)¼ tsp

Green chilli2, chopped

Curry leaves1 sprig

Tamarinda small piece, as thick pulp

Jaggery2 tsp

Red chilli powder (indian red chili powder)1 tsp

Roasted chana dal (roasted split chickpeas)3 tbsp putani, powdered

Sev½ cup

Coriander leaves (cilantro)a handful

Lemon½

Saltto taste

Method

4 steps

1Heat oil, add mustard, curry leaves, green chilli and half the onion. Fry until soft.
2Add turmeric, chilli powder, tamarind pulp, jaggery and salt with 2 tbsp water. Cook to a thick masala.
3Turn off the heat. Add the puffed rice and roasted chana powder and toss fast until every grain is coated.
4Top with raw onion, tomato, sev, coriander and a squeeze of lemon. Eat at once.

Serve it like this

Pile into a paper cone or steel plate and top with sev and coriander just before handing it over.

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