Mullu Murukku

Here comes another type of murukku! In this recipe, I added Bengal Gram flour and Red Chilli powder. It's my husband's favourite murukku. Here's the recipe.

Ingredients:
Rice flour - 4 cups
Urad dal - 100 gm
Bengal gram flour - 1/3 cup
White Sesame seed - 1 tbsp
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Red Chilli powder - 1 tsp
Ghee - 2 tbsp
Asafoetida - 2 pinches
Salt (to taste)
Oil (for deep-frying)

Method:
Dry-roast the urad dal till they become light golden-brown in medium-low flame.
Cool and powder them.
Sift the rice flour, urad flour and Bengal gram flour.
In a wide vessel add rice flour, Bengal gram flour, urad dal flour, sesame seeds, cumin seeds, asafoetida, salt, red chilli powder and finally ghee. Mix very well.
Gradually add water in little quantities and knead it into a dough.
Make a small dough-ball and insert it in the murukku presser with a star pattern.
This is what I did to get a good spiral shape. I cut a plantain leaf into small squares.
I applied oil on the surface of cut leaves.
Then slowly designed the spiral shapes of dough on the leaf.
Deep-fry the murukku in hot oil by gently sliding the spiral dough from the banana leaf.
Fry on both the sides.
When the hot oil bubbles settle down, remove the murukku from oil.
Cool and store them in an air-tight container.

Sent off to Saraswathi Iyer's "Sweets & Savouries" event and Shanthi Krishna Kumar's "Dussehra, Dhanteras and Deepavali" event.

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