Jhaal muri, in its spicy and tangy splendour, awakens the senses with one palm-throw from the old newspaper packet into the mouth at a time.
The huff-and-puffed rice, mixed with sliced green chillies, mustard oil and a generous sprinkling of spices, can be a micro-tropical storm in morsels. It’s a perfect blend of crunchy, savoury and spicy that keeps you coming back for more.
Chilli pakoras offer a fiery kick that sets the taste buds tingling. Thick green chillies are coated in a gram flour batter, deep-fried to golden perfection and served with chutney.
The crunch into the crispiness of the batter, reaching the fiery heat of the chillies, creates an addictive contrast that is nothing short of dialectically delightful.
And, of course, having these fiery delights earn bragging rights for the chilli cognoscenti. Statutory warning: be close to a drinking water source.
