How to Make Puffed Rice

Today I am making puffed rice, but this recipe can be used to easily puff almost any type of grain you can think of at home. This recipe for popcorn rice or muri is it also known is easy.

[Zeroxore]

I've been making puffed rice for years and I've learned the best method is without oil or salt if you don't mind prep time in cooking. Just soak your parboiled rice for a few hours, drain it and let it dry for a bit then fry it in a pan/wok without oil, keep stirring until puffy golden browned. I mostly use puffed rice to make chocolate bars similar to Crunch bars for family and friends.

[Dave_en]

These are the daily tea time snacks of rural India. These date back to centuries ago and still we enjoy this every day with family.

[bnpixie]

In another version, a guy heats up the oil, puts the rice in the sieve, and then dipped the sieve and rice in the oil. That way you just pull the rice out without dumping hot oil. ✌🏻

[jeffkalabolas]

FYI, regarding the clumping of the rice.
Rice clumps up because of the extra starch covering the rice. The easiest way to get rid of this clumping is to simply rinse the rice, generally 3 times will work, in cold water. For an extra level of de-starching, add a bit of salt to the 1st water mixture, mix it up really good, and then let it sit for about 2 minutes. Then rise it 2 more times with plain cold water. This is not just good for the puffing of rice, but any time you want to make rice that doesn't clump together.

[mattcordes]

Just to help you articulate the differences in the two methods.... the cooked rice you have effectively pre gelatinized and hydrated the starch within the rice and the uncooked is basically making the starch cook and somewhat gelatinize, but without as much or any hydration involved.. accounting for the much crispier denser texture.... you can also achieve a wonderful result by just soaking the rice in hot water for about 20 minutes... draining it and then allowing it to dry overnight between deep frying.... and you will get a combination of what you're looking for in a much more commercialized style puffed rice result...

[HeyBroItsBrad]

Watching that oil almost boil over was STRESSFUL

[lloydevans]

If you want to make something more like "rice krispies" without the oil content, you can: Rinse some uncooked rice thoroughly to get rid of the loose starch. Then cook it in a 1:4 ratio mixture of malt extract and water, which gives the rice a sweet and malty taste. To crisp it up, spread it out on a flat baking sheet, to a layer no more than 2 rice grains thick (ideally less), and toast for between 10 and 15 minutes in an oven at 220 degrees C.

You could try making an unsweetened version, but one main function of the sugar from the malt extract (other than flavour of course) is to prevent the rice completely drying out in the oven. As the outer surfaces of the rice grains dry out, the sugar forms a barrier, slowing down the escape of moisture from within the grains. This forces some of the water to stay inside the grains and expand into steam, puffing out the grains in a process similar to making popcorn, though far less violent. If you don't like the malt flavour, use a neutral sugar syrup (like golden syrup), or try maple syrup, coconut sugar or whatever other sugar syrup flavour you like.

[StoneAndersonStudio]

FYI— If you wash your rice thoroughly before cooking it’ll clump a lot less so it’ll take less work to separate the grains after dehydrating!
I’m excited to try this. My partner loves rice so it’ll be a fun surprise I think :)

[ayu]

In indonesia we called it "Rengginang", a common snack, sometimes used for traditional ceremony

[Юлиус-пц]

Precooked rice, dehydrated than fried, in Indonesia we call it "rengginang".
It's technically left over rice that become hard and inedible so we dry it further before fry it.

[OakiLory]

Man, such a great explanation and no fuss about views and shit; short and to the point, perfect...instant subscribe.

[dailyaditives]

The cooked rice version has a twist in India.

It is added with some chillies, tomatoes, onions, salt, cooking and mashing it to a thick consistency.

Made into thin tortilla shapes, layed over a white cloth, dried under the hot topical sun.

When you fry, it comes out really well, like a thin wavy paper plate.

Taste it with some Yogurt mixed Rice, some sour mangoes cut into little cubes, mixed with a table spoon of red chilli powder, a drop of oil and a pinch of salt.

Try it, for successfully getting teleported with the taste of India.

[mom]

This was a very informative video, thanks for sharing. I think I am going to try the oil method

[tomasgonzalez]

Great video! Being Cuban, and eating rice daily (LOL), you don't need "less sticky rice"... just use less water and prerinse. That will produce less clumps 👍

[seven]

Here in India we make these in local. They have many variety and each tastes completely different
1.first one is "chaal vaaja", shown in the video
2. " Moory" same method no oil, there is special technique which makes the rice puff a lot more then this which makes the final thing super light and easier to chew.
3."khoi" same method as moory but instead of rice use paddy(rice with its outer shell thingy).this is more similar to pop corn cause this time the grain actually puffs instead of just frying
4."Chiraa" special machines required so i am not explaining that

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[Supriyadi-tqyt]

We in Indonesia called it "rengginang", we used the second method with either sticky or non sticky rice.

[ninjanerdstudent]

Take some heated grated coconut, mix sambar powder, chopped onion, chopped cilantro, coconut oil, lemon juice, and salt, and mash ingredients together. Roast or microwave the charmura (puffed rice). Then mix charmura with the chutney you made previously and eat.

[Spell-jyxs]

"Hello, my peeps." What beauty. What a short, but sweet way to greet your viewers, better than any drawn out animation. It brings a tear to my eye. Truly the greatest intro on YouTube.

[ayahboyer]

Honestly, thank you for this, you've saved from surfing thru hours and hours of semi-useless+confusing videos to help me know exactly what I need to do. Thank you👍

[amity]

I just tried this and it is SO FECKING COOL!!!!