After my regular Sunday Cubbon park time I was stepping out of the park when I saw an old lady unpacking a huge sack near the gate. Very curious I peeped to see what was she trying to unwrap and realised she was preparing to sell kalle pori as she referred them to(Bhel ). I was stumped as I love bhel and i had never seen anything like this before , she read my expression and jumped in to clarify that this was “wheat Bhel” . My happiness knew no bounds 🙂 (Oh!yes , these small things do make me very happy) . She had this north karnataka accent, was very humble and she was talking to the right person as I cant stop myself from trying anything new . Before I realised I asked her how much and bought one litre of it and parted with the cash and walked away…

Once I reached home I inspected the treasure I had with me , this thing was three times the size of the regular Bhel and the puffs were cream in colour  . She had told me “madam you can do oggarane with it “, she meant to say that I can temper(tadka) it and savour . I stored  it carefully in an airtight container .  I woke up this morning to a raining Bangalore and I had this urge to munch on something healthy during the day .. Something which is guilt free . So I prepared this .

Recipe: I added a spoon of olive oil into the wok and when it heated added mustard , dry red chillies , peanuts , turmeric powder , asafoetida and sautéed .. Once I felt it was ready I put the stove off and added red chilly powder and mixed it . Finally added the puffed wheat corns into the mixture and voila you get to see the result and it tasted yummy too . I didn’t add salt to this as I didn’t feed the need to … What better way to enjoy the Bangalore weather? 🙂

PS: you can make this with the regular bhel and corn flakes too 🙂