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Beach style kara pori recipe (Masala kara pori)

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Learn how to make beach style kara pori hygienically at home. A perfect mixture of all tastes, that you would love to have without any guilt.

I have eaten kara pori that is dry with chilli powder, peanuts and garlic that they sell in Salem as ‘ Kara pori’, both buying it as well as my mom makes it very often for evening snack time. But this one is very new to me and I have not personally tasted this. My Co-sis is very very crazy about this pori and she just loves it a lot more than anything!

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Though I have been in Chennai for an year and visited lots of time before marriage, never bought anything from beach to eat. Even now, every year when I visit Chennai, we always go to Besant Nagar beach at least once. Vj and my BILs like to have the roasted corn (Sutta solam) but my co-sis bought this one and enjoyed!(I rather like to watch the waves (which I miss in SG) and wet my feet in the water, hehe). Last year when we went to beach, my co-sis ran to the vendor who sells this and bought it to eat.

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Then few days back, when I was having conversation with her in FB, asked her about it to try myself at home and see how it is. After all the person who loves it so much and eat it knows exactly how it is made and how it tastes right? So asked her and yes, she could tell each and every ingredient as I guessed. So this post is for her…🤗. Here you go girl… Thanks so much for sharing! And you too can make it at home, whenever you feel like 😊.

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Beach style kara pori recipe

Learn how to make beach style kara pori hygienically at home. A perfect mixture of all tastes, that you would love to have without any guilt.
Course Appetizer
Cuisine Indian
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 0 minutes
Servings 4
Cup measurements

Ingredients

  • Pori/ Puffed rice – 1 & 1/2 cup
  • Boiled Peanuts – 1/2 cup
  • Carrot- 3 tbsp Finely Chopped
  • Onion – 1
  • Cucumber – 1 small
  • Tomato – 1
  • Raw mango- 1/8 cup finely chopped
  • Lemon – 1
  • Red chilli powder – 3/4 tsp
  • Salt – As needed
  • Coriander leaves – 3 tbsp chopped

Instructions

  • If you are using fresh peanuts, just boil/ pressure cook it with salt and drain water set aside. If using the dried ones, soak for 2-3 hours and then proceed the same way. Finely chop all the veggies and set aside. In a large bowl, place pori and add all the other ingredients except lemon and mix well.
  • Lastly squeeze in the lemon and toss well. Check for salt, spice and tanginess, everything should be balanced!

Notes

  • Mix everything at the time when you are going to eat/ serve.
  • Adjust the lemon so that it balances the chilli powder. The lemon flavour and taste is supposed to dominate.
  • I din’t add mango as its out of season, but it will give a nice flavour, do add if you can.
  • Adjust salt, lemon and red chilli powder according to your taste.

Beach kara pori Method

  1. If you are using fresh peanuts, just boil/ pressure cook it with salt and drain water set aside. If using the dried ones, soak for 2-3 hours and then proceed the same way. Finely chop all the veggies and set aside. In a large bowl, place pori and add all the other ingredients except lemon and mix well.step 1 ingredients
  2. Lastly squeeze in the lemon and toss well. Check for salt, spice and tanginess, everything should be balanced.step 2

Who wants this tangy, spicy ‘Beach style’ Kara pori? 😍

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I am sending this to Bharathy’s event – “My spicy recipe” as this will be perfect for her event. Do send in you entries too and win attractive coupons too!

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  18. Bharathy

    Everyone loves Pori in my family here. esp my hubby. I have tried the common karapori version..not the wet beach version..:) lovely recipe! will have to try when I go back home 🙂 Sure he will love it!

    Hugs, again!!! 😀

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  48. Prathima Rao

    A fav in my town tooo..When we were kids a sunday treat would be a visit to the park and then a packet of the kara puri, called charmuri here..You have made it just so perfect..
    Prathima Rao
    Prats Corner

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  52. Anonymous

    Looks so yummy Raks. I love this option that yu can make it anytime without the sweet chutney and the green chutney. Its also healthy as it has the peanuts and all raw veggies….Drooooling!

    Shobha

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  55. G3R

    Hi Raks,
    This was just awesome and came as a handy snack when i was too lazy yet too hungry. Thanks for this wonderful recipe.♥
    If possible, can u post the recipe for the kara chutney that they give with bajjis in beaches.
    Thanks a lot 🙂

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  56. Anonymous

    Hi Sis,
    I left you an email, please get back to me as soon as possible.
    If anyone knows of any catering or cooks who can cook up the Vegetarian Masala Pori, for 1000pax, please do contact me as well.
    Elisha Suriani
    hp: 86096090

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  57. Manjula Pai

    This turned out so good. It literally took few minutes to make (excluding the boiled peanuts). Thanks a lot for the recipe:) every recipe of yours that I have tried has not disappointed me 🙂

    Reply

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