Easy Potato Murukku Recipe - Aloo Chakli Recipe - Easy Diwali Snack Recipes

In our place, diwali means it is murukku. Each year amma makes two types of murukku, mullu murukku and thenkuzhal. These are our staple. But as a food blogger, i like to explore..So each year i make different types of murukku which gave a whopping 11 murukku recipe to choose from..

In addition to those 11 murukku i have made two more murukku as well. This is the first one i tried and i also made ragi murukku..Both of them turned out super delicious..Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..

Preparation Time : 10 mins
Cooking Time : 1 to 2 min per batch
Makes around 20 to 25 murukku

Ingredients:

Rice Flour - 2 cups (Recipe here)
Potatoes - 2 medium size
Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1.5 tsp
Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya Podi - ½ tsp
Soft Butter - 2 tblspn
Salt to taste
Water as needed
Oil for Deep frying

Method:

Boil potatoes, peel them and take it in a blender, add little water and puree till smooth.

Take rice flour, salt, cumin seeds, asafoetida, butter in a bowl and mix well. Add in potato and mix well.

Slowly add in water and knead to a soft dough.

Heat oil for deep frying.

Now take your idiyappam press, place a thenkuzhal achu in it. Put dough in and make murukku.

Now drop murukku in oil and fry till the bubbles subsides. Drain it.

Cool this and store it in a air tight container.

Serve.

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