Murukku (south indian namkeen)

• Servings:
• Preparation time: 10 minutes.
• Frying time: 8- 10 minutes(each batch).
• Total time: 20 minutes.

Deepawali is one of the most important festival of India, this is the traditional recipe from south India on the occasion, I love the recipe and also love to put on traditional attire on this occasion the objective to upload this Dadi maa recipe is that new age mother can create the magic for their children and also ready to welcome important guest on the occasion.

Ingredients:

• Rice flour: 2 cup
• Fried gram (chutney dal): 1 cup
• Salt: 1 teaspoon
• Hot oil: 1 serving spoon
• Sesame seed: 1 tablespoon
• Chilli powder: 1 tablespoon
• Refined oil: for deep frying

Preparation:

For making dough:

1. Grind fried gram to fine powder.
2. Take a wide vessel; pour rice flour and fried gram flour, hot oil, salt, Sesame seed, Chili powder, mix well by rubbing between palms, add water in small quantity and knead them, if required, put some more water till the dough becomes soft.(The dough can be made in food processor also).
3. Divide the dough into 2-3 equal parts and roll each part into a cylindrical shape.
4. Take Murruku maker, apply oil inside. Fill the maker with dough.

Method:

1. Heat oil in a fry pan on medium flame (to check if oil is ready put a little piece of dough in the oil it comes up slowly means it is ready, if doesn’t wait for couple of minutes and test again). Now release the Murruku from the Murruku maker into the hot oil as shown in photo.
2. Deep fry the Murruku on medium heat, after they start to come up slowly turn over. Fry till it becomes light brown in colour. Remove Murruku from the oil; wait for few minutes to get the oil hot again, Repeat this till all are done. Now, Murruku is ready to serve. Store this Murruku in an air-tight container.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

Murukku (south indian namkeen) by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.