Homemade urad dal flour, How to make urad dal flour at home – You can make a lot of snacks and savories using this urad dal flour or ulunthu maavu.
Having urad dal flour ready at home is easy for making murukku, seedai and many indian snacks. We can make it at home and store it and use whenever needed. You can check out the homemade rice flour recipe here.
Homemade Urad Dal Flour
Urad Dal – as required(I used 1/2 cup)
Method:
- Heat a pan, dry roast urad dal in a pan until golden brown and nice aroma comes. Cool down completely.
- Transfer to a mixer and Grind it to a fine powder.Sieve it well.
- Either discard the coarse mixture or grind in next batch if its more. Roast the sieved flour till nice aroma comes.Store the urad dal powder in an airtight container.
You can use this flour for making any any homemade snacks.
My Notes:
- You can dry roast the urad dal flour even before using it for snacks or roast and store too like how I did.You can grind it in bulk and store it for around 6months.
- Make sure your mixture is completely dry before griding.
very useful post sharmilee. Beautiful shots to go with it 🙂
SHarmi can we use this to make vada etc…
@Finla : No the consistency of the batter is totally different for ulunthu vada , we cant use this as far as I know 🙂
Check vada recipe here : https://www.sharmispassions.com/2011/01/ulunthu-vadai-medhu-vadai-recipe.html
thankyou for the info sharmi
Nice helpful post Sharmi!
USMasala
wonderful post dear..
Nice idea to make urad dal …. Thanks for sharing …… lovely clicks by the way …..
i am loving your making the flours at home posts.. i never tried it.. i am sure it comes out to be cheaper and fresher flour unlike the packaged ones, when you dont know how old the flour is.
Thanks for posting!
Richa @ http://hobbyandmore.blogspot.com/
This is a really helpful post…Nice clicks too dear…
Simple but I like post like these!! Sharmi, I have been searching for measuring spoons for a while in Chennai. But they haven't fallen in my eyes yet. Where can I get these??
@Janu : I got these pink ones from Nilgiris here in Coimbatore. But previously had the red ones which I got from Santosh Stores Annanagar, there you get baking tins too, so give a visit.You can check out Nilgiris in Chennai too….
this powder gives nice aroma….nice click!
Useful post for many of us..
wonderful post dear…love the clicks too
Homemade urad flour makes murukkus all the more tasty!!! Nicely explained Sharmi…
Prathima Rao
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Thanks for the helpful post Sharmi. Can we use urad dal with skin? Or to better formulate the question, I have urad dal with skin. If I powder it, can I use it to make seedai?
@schmetterlingwords : This powder is mostly used for making indian snacks so urad dal without skin is preferred….
That's a nice post to share homemade flours. I am sure this will be a unique post since rarely has I seen posts on homemade flours. Thanks 🙂
wonderful post..make life a bit more easier at times.nice clicks.
Nice click. Perfect timing for the post Sharmi.
can we make any other recipes using urad dal flour expect murukku, seedai, thattai varieties..?
@Aishwarya : Hmm not really sure of it…
Urad dal flour is used by my friend in making vadais.She grinds like ordinary vadai dough and adds this flour too.Thus she gets big vadais like in hotels.i keep this in hand if vadai maavu becomes runny i add urad dal flour.Also i lake ulluthang kali .Very ideal food for young teen girls.
Can this be used with rice flour to make instant dosa batter.. If so do u know the proportion
No I haven't tried it so not sure
Do we have to wash the urad dal before roasting….
no need
Can I wash the uraddal dry it and then powder it
Rinse if you want then sundry it and then roast it