Puffed Rice Upma

Ingredients:

Puffed rice	4 cups
Onion	1 medium
Green chilli	1
Red chilli - coriander powder mix	1 tsp
(Red chilli and coriander powder mix :: 100 : 150 gms)
Turmeric powder	little
Salt	to taste
Curry leaves	few
Mustard	1/8 tsp
Oil	2 tbsp
Fried gram dhal	1 tbsp (ground into powder)

Method:

1. Soak the puffed rice in a big bowl of water for few seconds. Then press and squeeze to remove as much as water from the puffed rice and keep aside. 
2. Chop onion and green chilli into fine pieces. 
3. Heat a kadai with oil. Add mustard and allow to splutter. Then add onion and green chilli pieces. Fry till translucent. Lower the flame and add red chilli-coriander powder mix, turmeric powder and curry leaves. Mix well. Then add squeezed puffed rice and sprinkle little salt (puffed rice will contain salt. So add salt carefully). Mix and toss until all combined together. Now sprinkle fried gram dhal powder and again mix and toss well for 2-3 minutes. Switch off the flame. Puffed rice upma is ready. 

  Serve hot as breakfast or as evening snack.