Girmit

Girmit is the snack enjoyed by me with my cousins at Hubli, a town in North Karnataka. That time was a crazy time when we six cousins would meet during every holiday, enjoy watching films, playing cricket, breaking glasses of windows, playing hide and seek, getting fired for laughing and chatting through the nights, it was a huge haveli where one could easily get lost, can still picture my royal grand uncle sitting on the easy chair munching on his dry fruits, keeping an eye on all the happenings, my grand aunt busy supervising the haveli and everything around the place ......those were the memorable childhood days. We would all invariably want to watch every film that released, my aunt would feed all of us sitting in a line, uncle gave us all the money,  and the ritual was, after a late night movie, eating this super spicy girmit, biting into the green chilli, with the famous goti soda which would make a sound when opened!! The vendor outside the haveli would serve us this snack on a paper. The small pleasures of life which we miss now.
Here goes the way it was made....

Ingredients

Crisp puffed rice, the thinner variety
3 onions finely chopped
2 tomatoes finely chopped
4 green chillies finely chopped
 2 cups of fried gram powdered (chutney dal)
1/2 cup tamarind paste
Salt to taste
Fresh coriander chopped
Sev for garnish

Oil, mustard seeds. asafoetida and turmeric powder for the tempering

Method

In a pan take some oil, make a tempering, add chillies, onions, sate well till golden, add tomatoes, stir well,add the salt and the tamarind paste. Cook till mushy. Keep aside.

now in a bowl take 2 cups of puffed rice, add a ladle of the cooked masala, add salt if required, mix well, add chopped onion, tomatoes, mix well, garnish with sev, coriander and serve with a fried chilli......yummm your snack is ready.