Instant Roasted Gram(Porikadalai) Murukku Recipe

INGREDIENTS

1. Rice Flour / Readymade Idiyappam Flour – 1 cup
2. Split Roasted Gram(Pottukadalai) – 3 tbsp
3. Butter – 1/2 tbsp
4. Jeera/cumin seeds – 1 tsp
5. Salt – to taste
6. Oil – to deep fry
7. Water – as required

PROCEDURE

1. In a mixer grinder, add the roasted gram.
2. Grind it into a fine powder.
3. In a mixing bowl, sieve the rice flour and powdered roasted gram.
4. Now, add butter, jeera and salt to it.
5. Mix it well with once .
6. Add hot water little by little to it. Mix it with a ladle.
7. Boil water when it starts to boil switch off.
8. Once it is combined well use your hands to gather to form a soft dough.
9. Take your murukku mould and fit in the star shaped disc.I used my single star shaped disc, you can use multi star press too.
10. Grease the murukku press with little oil and fill it up with the dough.
11. Now slowly press directly into oil or on a laddle .
12. Heat oil in a kadai.
13. Drop a small pinch of dough to check if the oil temperature is right…when the dough immediately raises to the top with a sizzle then your oil is ready.
14. Carefully drop the murukku into the oil and fry till golden brown.
15. Drain the excess oil on a tissue paper.
16. Cool down in an store in an airtight container.

NOTE

1. You can either use homemade rice flour or readymade idiyappam flour.You dont need to roast the idiyappam flour for this murukku.
2. Sieving both the flours is optional but I recommend doing it as it ensure even mixing.
3. You can replace jeera with sesame seeds.
4. If you prefer spicy murukku then use 1/2 tsp red chilli powder or grind 3 pearls garlic with 2 red chillies for flavoured murukku.
5. You can even use thenkuzhal press for this murukku.You can make concentric circles or make irregular shapes.
6. Adding more butter will make the murukku crumble and you will not get continuous swirls while pressing it will break in between.
7. When you press and if its too tight to press then your dough is very tight in consistency so drizzle little water and knead to get the desired consistency. And when you press if you dont get a long continuous line and if it tends to break then butter is more so dont panic – just little rice flour, water and knead it again.

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