Butter Murukku

Butter  Murukku

 

Rice Flour - 2 cups

Urad dhal powder - ½ cup

Red chilli powder – 1/2 tsp

Salt to taste

Hing -  2 pinches

Butter – 3 tbsp

Oil - to deep fry

Mix all the ingredients to bread crumb consistency.

Now for every handful of this, add cold water & knead to a soft dough. [ Take some portion of flour mixture and  knead  into a dough now and then and prepare murukku .]

Press using “ murukku achu” circularly on a greased flat ladle.  You can use the ladle which we use for taking out fried items from oil.

Dip the ladle with  murukku into the hot oil and now you can easily flip it.

You can fry 2 or 3 Butter murukku at a time.

Fry till bubbles stops,  in medium flame.  

Cool & store in air tight container.

 

·         For Rice Flour :  Wash & soak ( Maavu arisi / Patni chawal ) rice for 1 hr.

Drain & dry by spreading in a cloth .

 

Powder in the mixie & sieve fine.

 

For rice flour, You can also use store bought ‘ Idiyapam flour ‘ which are easily available .

 

·         Lightly roast urad dhal & powder it.

Sieve to get fine powder.