Kerala Style Murukku
Kerala Style Murukku is a crunchy, crispy tea time snack very popular in South Indian Cuisine. Kerala Style Murukku is prepared from a mixture of black gram dal, rice flour and selective spices. This snack dish is unique and special with rice flour mixture pressed out through a ‘seva nazhi’ in desired shapes and deep fried in oil. Murukku is a healthy snack and the snack can be stored in air tight containers for some time. You can explore a well illustrated Murukku recipe here that can be easily prepared at home.
Ingredients
- 4 cups Rice flour Ari podi
- 1 cup Black gram(Uzhunnu) Whole
- 1 tbsp Cumin seeds Jeerakam
- 1 tbsp Sesame seeds Ellu
- Asafoetida A little, Kayam
- 500 G Coconut oil
- Salt As reqd
Instructions
- For preparing Kerala Style Murukku, first heat the rice flour.
- Heat the whole black gram, till it's light golden brown.
- Cook black gram in 1 1/2 glass of water.
- Allow it to cool and grind it in a mixer grinder to make it into a paste.
- Mix together the above black gram paste, rice flour and salt along with cumin seeds, sesame seeds and asafoetida.
- Add some water and knead this mixture well to make a dough.
- Take a seva nazhi and put a portion of this mixture into it.
- Press the handle to let the mixture come down in the shape of a murukku onto a plastic paper or a plantain leaf(vazha ela).
- :- Do not forget to put the chillu inside the seva nazhi.
- Heat oil in a kadai and allow it to boil.
- Slowly, put these murukku into the oil and fry them.
- :- Those who can use their fingers to shape the dough in the form of murukku can do so. However, it's much easier the other way.
- Drain oil from Murukku.
- Keep Kerala Style Murukku in an air tight container to retain the crispiness.
Notes
You can visit this link for a delicious snack Thattai with Raw Rice. You can also visit this link Fruit Biscuits.
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