Muntha Masala Recipe

Muntha Masala Recipe or pidatha kinda pappu is one of the famous Andhra street foods during the winter monsoon period. Learn how to make Muntha Masala Recipe with step-by-step image instructions, tips, and a video.

During the winter monsoon, the climate is cold and Andhra People love to eat hot and spicy foods. People make this recipe by adding different snack items like mur mur, peanuts, mirchi bajji, onions, mixture and spice masala. Apart from these ingredients people also add corn flakes, a few kinds of fried dals, grated carrot and cucumber and other ingredients.

Based on the location and price adding the above ingredients vary. Whatever the ingredients we add, puffed rice remains a common ingredient. When we want to try at home, we may experiment with the above ingredients based on age and our taste.

Making Muntha Masala Recipe or pidatha kinda pappu turns out easy when you have all ingredients handy. The only time-consuming process is grating carrots, cucumber, onions and tomatoes. We can even skip a few ingredients based on taste buds. Hope you will enjoy Andhra Style mouth-watering spicy evening snack.

Tips to make muntha masala recipe:

• Refrigerated or day-old mirchi vada tastes great with this recipe.
• Chat masala plays an important role in enhancing the flavor of this recipe rather than garam masala powder.
• When using puffed rice, street-side vendors put a charcoal pot over them to give them a hot and crispy flavor.
• Do not mix hard so that puffed rice turns soft and liquid from onion and tomato gets released.
• When you do not have mirchi vada then we can even substitute any other vada recipe or mixture.
• Adding oil to this recipe is optional, few like to add oil or ghee but it’s not mandatory.

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Chana dal vada,

Mirchi vada,

Raw banana bajji,

Andhra cut mirchi bajji and

Bread pakora.

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Muntha Masala Recipe

MunthaMasala Recipe or pidatha kinda pappu is one of the famous Andhra street foods during the winter monsoon period.

Course Snack

Cuisine Andhra

Keyword muntha masala recipe

Prep Time 15 minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

Servings 4

Author Uppada Lakshmi

Ingredients

• Mirchi Vada – 1 No.
• Mur Mur/ puffed rice – 1 big bowl
• Red chili powder – ½ tbsp.
• Salt – ½ tbsp.
• Turmeric powder – a pinch
• Chat masala – ¾ tbsp.
• Jeera/ cumin powder – ¼ tbsp.
• Rock salt – ½ tbsp.
• Onions – 2-3 tbsp.
• Fried peanuts – 2-3 tbsp.
• Fried corn flakes – 3 tbsp.
• Coriander leaves – 2 tbsp.
• Tomato – 2 tbsp.
• Lemon extract – 1 tbsp.

Instructions

1. To make this recipe easy, first slice mirchi vada, onions and tomatoes into small pieces. Optionally we may even add grated carrot or cucumber.
2. In a large vessel (it becomes convenient to mix all ingredients), add puffed rice, onions and tomatoes. (If you are adding any more veggies add them)
3. Sprinkle red chili powder, turmeric powder, chat masala, salt, jeera powder and rock salt.
4. To give nutty flavor add fried peanuts and corn flakes. (We may add mixture at this time)
5. Add lemon extract to give a tangy flavor. Mix all ingredients.
6. Muntha masala recipe tends to get soft if we keep it aside, so serve immediately.

How to make muntha masala recipe:

1.  Cut mirchi vada into small pieces and keep them aside. In a large mixing bowl, add puffed rice, red chili powder and salt.

2.  Add a pinch of turmeric powder, chat masala, jeera powder and rock salt.

3.  Put onion slices, cut mirchi vada, fried peanuts and fried corn flakes.

4.  Add coriander leaves, tomato slices and lemon extract. Mix all ingredients and serve Muntha Masala Recipe immediately.

Watch this recipe video on ( Youtube ).

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