Heat a pan/wok with a tbsp of peanuts, dry roast them till they shed their skin. Let them cool down, then add to a mixer. Include roasted gram too and powder them together.

Transfer the powder to a container. Add green chillies along with garlic cloves to the same mixer jar and grind to coarse paste without any water.

Next heat a big pan or kadai with oil, curry leaves and peanuts. Saute till the peanuts are fried. Add salt followed by turmeric powder and mix.

Next add roasted gram to the pan, saute for a second and include chilly-garlic paste. Mix it and switch off the flame.

Now include puffed rice, sugar, powdered peanut and gram. Mix it thouroughly.

Easy snack spicy puffed rice is ready to serve with hot tea/coffee.

If you don't like garlic, you can skip it. But garlic gives very good authentic flavor.

Instead of green chillies, you can choose to add red chilly powder too.

Peanut plus roasted gram powder gives enhanced taste. So I recommend adding it.

After adding roasted gram to the tempering, do not saute for long. The gram gets easily burnt ruining the taste.