Masala Pori Recipe | Kara Pori

^{Masala Pori is an easy snack recipe. Masala pori is also known as kara pori. It is very tasty and healthy snack .  It will go well with evening tea in the winter season.  In my childhood days i went to my chithi’s house in Coimbatore. My chithi prepared masala pori and gave it to me. I asked for more and more of fried garlic as it tasted good.  Smell of coconut oil tempts us to eat more and more. I still remember the taste. So i remember the recipe.
Here is the recipe.}

^Ingredients:

• ^{Pori(puffed rice) – 1 pocket}
• ^{Fried gram (pottu kadalai) – ½ cup}
• ^{Peanut(ground nut)  – ½ cup}
• ^{Curry leaves   – few}
• ^{Red chilli –  2}
• ^{Mor Milagai  – 4}
• ^{Garlic cloves – 10}
• ^{Coconut oil – 2 tblsp}
• ^{Mustard – ½ tsp}
• ^{Cumin  –  ½ tsp}
• ^{Turmeric powder – ½   tsp}
• ^{Red chilli powder – ¼ tsp}
• ^{Salt  – ½ tsp}
• ^{Cumin powder – ¼ tsp}
• ^{Pepper powder   – ¼ tsp}

^Method:

^{Clean the pori. Dry roast the peanut and peel the skin. Crush the garlic cloves. Break red chillies and mor milagai.
Heat coconut oil in a frying pan and add mustard and cumin. When they crackle add curry leaves, red chilli, garlic and mor milagai and fry for a minute.
Then add pottu kadalai and ground nut and stir for a few seconds. Add all powders one by one and mix well.
Finally add pori (puffed rice) and mix thoroughly.}

^{Note:
You can use refined oil also.
You can add mor milagai instead of red chilli.
If you like garlic taste you can add.
You can add masala powder according to your taste.}