Peanut Butter Chakli / Murukku

Peanut Butter Murukku /  Moongphali Chakli

Rice flour : 1 cup

Peanuts : ½ cup

Roasted Gram / Pottukadalai :  ¼ cup

Cumin Seeds : ½ tsp

Oregano / Omam / Ajwain : 1 tsp

Hing powder : 2 pinches

Salt to taste

Oil for deep frying.

          Dry roast Peanuts and remove from Pan.

Switch off and add cumin seeds in the hot Pan .  Heat remains in the Pan is enough for it to get hot …  Stir fry cumin seeds and leave it … meanwhile remove skin from the peanuts. 

Grind cumin seeds and Oregano in the mixie.

Add Roasted gram , peanuts and grind to a nice powder.

Add little water and grind to a smooth paste.

Take peanut butter in a bowl.  Mix rice flour,  2 tsp of oil , salt , hing to the peanut butter .  Add little water if needed. 

Dough should be soft but should not be sticky.

Make dough in a cylindrical shape ( optional… this is just for our convenience )

 Brush dough cylinder , with 2 or 3 drops of oil .

Grease the inner wall of the Sev / Murukku press and also the blade with holes, star in shape. … so that the dough will not stick to the press.

Heat oil in the pan … 

Fill 3/4^th of  the  Sev / Murukku Press with the dough .

Press it in circular motion , on top of hot oil to get thin noodles of murukku.

Fry in medium flame on both sides , till it becomes golden brown and the bubbles stops.

Remove from oil carefully and when it comes to room temperature, store it in air tight container.

Very crunchy , melt in the mouth … Peanut butter Murukku is ready to serve as healthy evening snack for kids.

This Murukku can be prepared for Diwali , the festival of light.