Monday, January 10, 2011

Murukku

Murukku


Murukkus, a wonderful snack for tea-time,
Ingredients:
Rice flour - 4 cups
Black gram (Urad Dal / Uzhunthu) flour - 1 cup (you can do it at home by frying it nicely and grinding it)
Cumin seeds - 1/2 teaspoons
Asafoetida powder - a pinch
chilli powder-1/2 spoon
seasame seeds-1 spoon
omam -1/4tsp
Butter - 2 tablespoons
Salt to taste
Oil for deep frying




Method:
Mix all ingredients except oil with little water to make it a nice soft dough.
Apply oil in hands so that it wont stick to your hands, add the dough to the murukku maker.
On greased polythene sheets, squeeze the dough from the maker and make murukkus.
Meanwhile heat oil in pan for 5-10 minutes.
Then slowly put them one by one in oil(lot of bubbles will appear).
Fry them until they are golden brown(Tip:bubbles start disappearing as they are cooked).
Murukkus, a wonderful snack for tea-time, are ready.


Happy Cooking

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