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Murukku


Ingredients

1 & 1/4th  cup Rice flour (rice flour should be made from small grain desi rice)
1/4th cup urad dal flour
2 tbsp Amul butter
1 tsp Jeera
Salt to taste ~ 1/2 tsp
Water to knead
Oil to fry the murruku


Method

1. Roast urad dal till you can smell an aroma. Do not brown it. Cool and make a powder in a mixer grinder. Sieve and keep aside.
2. Take the rice flour, urad dal powder, 2 tbsp butter, 1 tsp jeera and knead with water. Dough should be like a chapati dough. The dough should be soft enough to press in murukku machine.
3. Heat oil in a kadhai. Make murukkus with the machine and fry in oil.
4. The oil should be hot initially. Murukku should be fried in medium flame until golden brown.
5. Drain on a paper kitchen towel and let it cool.
6. Store in an airtight container



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