Pottukadalai Murukku
Pottukadalai Murukku is a crispy snack made by frying fried gram flour passed through press. Pottukadalai Murukku is an alternate murukku to try at home as evening tea time snack.
Servings15
Ingredients
- 1 cup rice flour
- 1/4 cup fried gram dal
- 1/2 tablespoon butter
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- salt to taste
- oil to deep fry
- water as required
Instructions
- In a dry mixer grind fried gram to a fine powder. Now combine rice flour and roasted gram flour and sieve it.
- In a mixing bowl take the sieved flours , butter, jeera and salt and mix well with your hands first.Boil water when it starts to boil switch off.
- Add water little by little and mix it with a spatula. Once it is combined well use your hands to gather to form a soft dough.
- Take your murukku mould and fit in the star shaped disc. Grease the murukku press with little oil and fill it up with the dough. Now slowly press directly into oil or on a laddle like I did.
- Heat oil - drop a small pinch of dough to check if the oil temperature is right... when the dough immediately raises to the top with a sizzle then your oil is ready.
- Flip the laddle to transfer the murukku into the oil and fry till golden brown. Drain in a tissue paper.
- Cool down and store Pottukadalai Murukku in an airtight container.
Notes
- You can either use homemade rice flour or readymade idiyappam flour. You dont need to roast the idiyappam flour for this murukku. I used Nirampara brand idiyappam flour.
- Sieving both the flours is optional but I recommend doing it as it ensure even mixing.
- You can replace jeera with sesame seeds.
- If you prefer spicy murukku then use 1/2 teaspoon red chilli powder. Or grind 3 pearls garlic with 2 red chillies for flavored murukku.
- You can even use thenkuzhal press for this murukku. You can make concentric circles or make irregular shapes like how I did. I made concentric circles for mullu murukku so wanted to try like this for puttukadali murukku just to show variation in the pics.
- Adding more butter will make the murukku crumble and you will not get continuous swirls while pressing it will break in between. When you press and if its too tight to press then your dough is very tight in consistency so drizzle little water and knead to get the desired consistency.
- And when you press if you don't get a long continuous line and if it tends to break then butter is more so don't panic - just little rice flour, water and mix it again.
Nutrition Facts
Pottukadalai Murukku
Amount Per Serving (25 g)
Calories 60
Calories from Fat 9
% Daily Value*
Fat 1g2%
Saturated Fat 0.3g2%
Trans Fat 0.02g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.3g
Monounsaturated Fat 1g
Cholesterol 1mg0%
Sodium 262mg11%
Potassium 41mg1%
Carbohydrates 11g4%
Fiber 1g4%
Sugar 0.1g0%
Protein 1g2%
Vitamin A 15IU0%
Vitamin C 0.2mg0%
Calcium 4mg0%
Iron 0.4mg2%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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