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Japanese: ポン菓子 (Pongashi).
Puffed rice for sale in Ulsoor Market, Bangalore.

Puffed rice is a type of puffed grain made from rice; usually made by heating rice kernels under high pressure in the presence of steam, though the method of manufacture varies widely.

Usage

Spicy puffed rice

Puffed rice is used in breakfast cereals, snack foods like puffed rice cakes, and is also a popular street food in some parts of the world. It is an ingredient of bhel puri, a popular Indian chaat (snack). It is also used in temples and gurdwaras as prasad (an offering).

Pori is offered to Hindu gods and goddesses in all poojas in the South Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Pilgrims of Sabarimala often pack puffed rice in their Irumudikettu along with jaggery meant to be offered to Lord Ayyappan. Tamil saints say that Lord Ganesh loves pori, so it should be offered to him without fail. Pori (Puffed Rice) has been mentioned in various Tamil literatures as an offering to Hindu deities. Offerings of pori and jaggery made to Vinayagar (Lord Ganesh) are mentioned in the Tiruppugazh, a 15th-century anthology of Tamil religious songs, written by Tamil poet Arunagirinathar.

Pori production has been the main family business for centuries among many villages around Namakkal, Avinashi in Tamil Nadu.

In Telangana, as a snack typically given to children, puffed rice or bongulu is made into ball with jaggery syrup or bellam pakam.

Jhal Mudhi (Puffed rice) of Baripada

Mudhi is a staple food of people of Odisha.[1] northern Odisha, especially Baripada, Mayurbhanj district is significant for the production of Mudhi, where throughout the state it is eaten in breakfast.[2] NGOs have taken forward initiatives to engage village women of northern Odisha for producing Mudhi.[3] Intellectual property rights (IPR) Cell of Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) has decided to bring out Geographical indication (GI) registration of Mudhi.[4]

Uggani and Bajji (Steamed puffed rice and Fritters), a typical breakfast of Rayalaseema

A traditional puffed rice called muri (sometimes spelled mouri) is made by heating rice in a sand-filled oven. Muri is to rice as popcorn is to corn. The processing involved makes rice less perishable. Mandakki is a staple food in many parts of Rayalaseema, North Karnataka, Odisha, West Bengal and Bangladesh. Jhalmuri or Masalemandakki is a very popular preparation made from mandakki (muri).[5]

Puffed rice is referred to as mur-mure in some parts of India. In many parts of Rayalaseema, North Karnataka uggani along with Menasinakaayi Bajji (Chilli Bajjis) are popular. In Karnataka, Mandakki Usli made from mandakki is also famous. In Mithila area, "murhi" is had with "kachari"-fried potato/onion chops, fried fish or with mutton curry. "Jhal-murhi" and "Murhi-Bhuja" are also very popular snacks in this area. In Madhya Pradesh, this is referred to as Parmal and its very often eaten with Sev as a snack and also used in Bhel.

Puffed rice in different languages
Language Puffed rice
Assamese Muri
Bengali মুড়ি [Muri]
Bulgarian оризон ("orizon")
Chinese 米香(pinyin:mǐ xiāng),大米花(pinyin:dà mă huā)
Croatian ekspandirana riža
Czech pufovaná rýže / burizon
Dutch gepofte rijst
English Puffed rice
Filipino Ampaw
French Riz soufflé
Galician Arroz inflado
German Puffreis / Reiswaffel
Gujarati મમરા [Mamra]
Hebrew פצפוצי אורז pitzputzey orez
Hindi Murmure / Parmal / Murra / Laiyya
Hungarian puffasztott rizs
íslenska uppblásin hrísgrjón
Italian Riso soffiato
Japanese ポン菓子 (Pongashi)
Kannada Churumuri, ಕಳ್ಳೆ ಪುರಿ [Kalle Puri], Kadale Puri, Puri, Mandalu or Mandakki and Aralu (Poprice)
Kazakh кіртілдек күріш ("kirtildek kurish")
Konkani Chirmulyo, Chanburo
Korean Gang-naeng-yi
Macedonian експандиран ориз (ekspandiran oriz)
Maithili মুড়ি [Muri]
Malayalam പൊരി [Pori], Malaru
Marathi चिरमुरे [Chirmure], Kurmure, Murmure
Nepali Murai / Bhuja
Norwegian Puffet ris
Oriya ମୁଢ଼ି [ mudhi ]
Polish Ryż dmuchany / preparowany
Portuguese Arroz Tufado
Punjabi Phulian
Russian воздушный рис ("vozdushny ris")
Kosli language (Sambalpuri) Bhuja
Serbian ekspandirani pirinač
Sindhi fulla
Slovak burizóny
Slovene ekspandiran riž
Spanish Arroz inflado
Swedish Puffat ris
Tamil பொரி [Pori]
Telugu మర్మరాలు [Maramaralu] or Moorilu [Costal Andhra] or Bongulu [Telangana] or Borugulu(as called in Rayalaseema)
Tulu Kurlu
Urdu (Dakkani) Murmure
Vietnamese Bỏng gạo

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