Murukku Recipe – Murukku is a deep fried crunchy South Indian snacks. There are so many variations of making murukku with different ingredients, shapes, textures and taste. In this post I am sharing a basic murukku recipe with rice flour and roasted urad dal flour which you can easily make in your home.
I have shared murukku recipe in step by step method with a detailed pictures below.
Measure 1/4 cup of urad dal
Add them to the pan roast them until it’s aromatic.
Let roasted urad dal cooled at room temperature add roasted urad dal to a blender.
Cool and make a fine powder.
In a mixing bowl sieve urad dal powder.
Now add rice flour
Now add salt, cumin powder and hing
Add hot oil or butter.
Add required water to knead a dough
Do not add too much water. Too much water will make the murukku absorb excess oil. Murukku has to be made as soon as you make a dough.
Grease the murukku mould with little oil also grease the star shape plate. Divide the dough into small portions roll them to a cylindrical shape. Press the dough to make spirals either in a butter paper or flat hole ladle.
Heat oil in a kadai. Place the murukku ladle in a kadai gently slide them into the oil.
Fry murukku on a medium flame till light golden brown flip them gently. Fry the other side.
Drain murukku in a kitchen tissues to remove excess oil. Cool completely and store in an airtight container.
You can also check my other snacks recipes of Shankar pali Recipe, Khaja recipe, cookies recipe
INGREDIENTS
- 1/4 cup urad dal
- 1 1/4 cup rice flour
- Salt as needed
- 1 teaspoon cumin powder
- 1/4 teaspoon hing
- 1 tablespoon hot oil
- 1/2 cup water
- Oil for frying
INSTRUCTIONS
- Measure 1/4 cup of urad dal
- Add them to the pan roast them until it’s aromatic. Cooled the Urad dal at room temperature.
- Cool and make a fine powder.
- In a mixing bowl sieve urad dal powder add rice flour.
- Now add salt, cumin powder and hing
- Add hot oil or butter.
- Add required water to knead a dough
- Do not add too much water . Too much water will make the murukku absorb excess oil. Murukku has to be made as soon as you make a dough.
- Grease the murukku mould with little oil also grease the star shape plate. Divide the dough into small portions roll them to a cylindrical shape. Press the dough to make spirals either in a butter paper or flat hole ladle.
- Heat oil in a kadai. Place the murukku ladle in a kadai gently slide them into the oil.
- Fry murukku on a medium flame till light golden brown flip them gently. Fry the other side.
- Drain murukku in a kitchen tissues to remove excess oil. Cool completely and store in an airtight container.
