Pottukadalai Murukku Recipe with step by step pictures. This recipe comes out super crispy, crunchy with soft and melt in mouth texture. Try it for this Krishna Jeyanthy and you will continue it as an after-school snack for kids.
Pottukadalai Murukku
There is no stop for making murukku, you can make them with any flour your have, but the base of a muruku would be rice flour. If you have that on hand, you can make murukku with anything. This is a basic murukku made with rice flour and pottu kadalai podi. So easy to make but turns out extremely tasty..You can check out my mullu murukku variation of this and other murukku too.
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Ingredients for Pottukadalai Murukku
- Rice Flour / Arisi Mavu - 1 cup
- Pottu Kadalai / Roasted Split Gram Dal - ¼ cup
- Salt to taste
- Sesame Seeds - 1 tsp
- Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya Podi - a pinch
- Ghee - 1 tbsp
- Coarse Pepper Powder - 1 tsp
- Water as needed
How to Make Pottukadalai Murukku
- Take pottu kadalai in a blender and make it into a fine powder.
- Take rice flour, pottu kadalai powder, sesame seeds, salt, asafoetida, pepper powder and ghee in a bowl and rub with your hands, so the ghee is mixed in properly.
- Now add in water and knead it to a soft dough.
- Heat oil for deep frying.
- Now fill the dough in your favourite murukku press and make thenkuzhal.
- Make many thenkuzhal and deep fry it in oil till the shh sound stops from the oil.
- Drain and allow to cool completely.
- Now store this in a air tight dappa and serve.
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Pottukadalai Murukku Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup Rice Flour / Arisi Mavu
- ¼ cup Pottu Kadalai / Roasted Split Gram Dal
- Salt to taste
- 1 tsp Sesame Seeds
- Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya Podi - a pinch
- 1 tblspn Ghee
- 1 tsp Coarse Pepper Powder
- Water as needed
Instructions
- Take pottu kadalai in a blender and make it into a fine powder.
- Take rice flour, pottu kadalai powder, sesame seeds, salt, asafoetida, pepper powder and ghee in a bowl and rub with your hands, so the ghee is mixed in properly.
- Now add in water and knead it to a soft dough.
- Heat oil for deep frying.
- Now fill the dough in your favorite murukku press and make thenkuzhal.
- Make many thenkuzhal and deep fry it in oil till the shh sound stops from the oil. Drain and allow to cool completely.
- Now store this in a air tight dappa and serve.
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Pottukadalai Murukku Recipe Step by Step
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| Take pottu kadalai in a blender |
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| make it into a fine powder |
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| Take rice flour in a bowl |
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| sieve in the pottu kadalai powder |
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| now mix this well |
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| add in sesame seeds |
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| some pepper powder |
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| add in some asafoetida |
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| some salt |
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| and some ghee |
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| rub it well |
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| now it is coarse |
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| add water |
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| shape it into a soft dough |
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| take your favourite murukku press |
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| fill it with dough |
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| press to make thenkuzhal |
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| time to fry |
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| drop it in hot oil and fry till golden |
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| drain it |
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| ta da.. |
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| enjoy |
Gunashankari
Hi Aarthi,
I just tried this Muukku for Diwali... it came out really well.. Thanks for ur Videos... it means a lot to us..