Pottukadalai Murukku Recipe / Pottukadalai Thenkuzhal Recipe

Last Updated on October 4, 2017

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..

Preparation Time : 10 mins

Cooking Time : 1 to 2 min per batch

Makes : 12 to 15 murukku

Ingredients:

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 tblspn

Coarse Pepper Powder - 1 tsp

Water as needed

Method:

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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