MULLU MURUKKU

INGREDIENTS:

Gram flour	1 cup
Moongdal  flour	1 cup`
Rice  flour	3 cup
Butter (room temp.)	3-5 tbl
Salt	As per taste

 

Method:

First dry roast the lentils(moongdal &channa dal) separately in a kadai,cool them  and grind it in blender

 

Then sieve the flours nicely.

Now  sieve the rice flour seperately.

Mix the flours together  by adding butter /clarified  ghee ,salt with water little by  little,make it to a dough.

The dough should not be too hard or soft.

Take the murukku press maker,you can use the 1 hole star for preparing this murukku.

Make a big ball of the dough keep it in the maker  ,usually these are pressed directly to the oil but  you can use the plastic sheet  grease it with oil and press  the murukku dough  to 3 -4 spirals.

Now pour enough oil in kadai and heat it.

See to that oil should be hot, test it by dropping a piece of dough.

Now slowly drop each pressed murukku  to the oil,after a few seconds you can see the murukku coming up  and the sound of  the oil subsides.

Now turn to another side and after few seconds take out from the oil and transfer to kitchen towel.

Murukku must be golden  color.

You can try 2-3 murukku in the oil simultaneously.

Once cooled store it in air tight container.

 

Note:

The blender must be dry while grinding lentils

Rice flour need not to be roast.You can add cumin seeds , chilli powder also while preparing the dough.

if the dough is too hard add little hot oil and mix it again.