Butter Murukku Recipe with step by step pictures. This recipe is made from rice flour, gram flour and roasted gram dal. It is prepared mostly during festival seasons.
Butter Murukku
One of the easiest murukku you could ever make, this is it..It can be made very easily, but the taste is absolutely delicious. Taste so buttery, crunchy and melt in mouth..It is hard that you can go wrong in this recipe.
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Ingredients for Butter Murukku
- Rice Flour / Arisi Mavu - 1 cup
- Gram Flour / Kadalai mavu / Besan - 2 tbsp
- Roasted Gram Dal / Pori Kadalai - 2 tablespoon powdered
- Salt to taste
- Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya Podi - ¼ tsp
- Butter or Ghee or Vanaspati - 1.5 tbsp
- Sesame Seeds - 1 tsp
- Water as needed
- Oil for Deep Frying
How to Make Butter Murukku
- Take rice flour, gram flour and roasted gram dal powder in a sifter and sieve it well.
- Take it in a bowl, add in the remaining ingredients except oil and water and rub with your finger to create a crumbly texture.
- Now add in water slowly and knead to a soft dough.
- Heat oil for deep frying.
- Fill the murukku press with the dough, i used a mullu murukku achu for this, you can use any mould. Fill the press with dough and press straight in oil.
- Fry till golden and the shh sound subsides in the oil. Drain onto some paper towel.
- Cool this completely.
- Store this in a air tight container.
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Butter Murukku Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup Rice Flour / Arisi Mavu
- 2 tablespoon Gram Flour / Kadalai mavu / Besan
- 2 tablespoon Roasted Gram Dal / Pori Kadalai powdered
- Salt to taste
- ¼ teaspoon Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya Podi
- 1.5 tablespoon Butter or Ghee or Vanaspati
- 1 teaspoon Sesame Seeds
- Water as needed
- Oil for Deep Frying
Instructions
- Take rice flour, gram flour and roasted gram dal powder in a sifter and sieve it well.
- Take it in a bowl, add in the remaining ingredients except oil and water and rub with your finger to create a crumbly texture.
- Now add in water slowly and knead to a soft dough.
- Heat oil for deep frying.
- Fill the murukku press with the dough, i used a mullu murukku achu for this, you can use any mould. Fill the press with dough and press straight in oil.
- Fry till golden and the shh sound subsides in the oil. Drain onto some paper towel.
- Cool this completely.
- Store this in a air tight container.
Nutrition
Butter Murukku Step By Step
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| Take roasted gram dal in a blender |
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| powder finely |
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| Take rice flour in a sifter |
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| Add in powdered gram dal |
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| add in gram flour |
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| sieve it well |
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| done |
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| take it in a bowl |
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| add in salt |
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| add in sesame seeds |
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| asafoetida |
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| now add in either butter, ghee or vanaspati |
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| rub it with your fingers |
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| now it resembles coarse crumbs |
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| add water slowly |
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| knead to a soft dough |
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| now it is done |
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| You need this mould, you can use any shape |
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| roll it like a log |
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| put it in the mould |

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| Press it straight into the hot oil |
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| let it fry |
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| now the bubbles in oil has subsides a bit |
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| now it is done |
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| drain it |
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| set aside to cool completely |











































Anonymous
Can pottukadali be used instead of pori kadalai
Aarthi
@Anonymouspottu kadalai and porikadalai are same, u can use it
Jp Ravi
Can we use idiyappam podi for arisi mavu...pls reply fast...need to make for Diwali 🙋
Aarthi
@Jp Ravii think you could use that
Annie
What is the measure of the cup u use Aarthi?
Afia Afiq
Ur one cup rice flour how much in grams?????
Aarthi
My 1 cup measures 240 ml. I use that same cup to measure everything
Reema
Aarthi how many grams of rice flour?????