Murukku / Simple and Easy Murukku

               Murukku is one of my all time favorite. Many people prepare it for festive seasons like diwali, pongal etc... but when I want to munch something, I do these murukkus in bulk and keep it for future use. Today we will see the simple and basic murukku which is very easy to prepare.

Ingredients

• Riceflour - 2 cups
• Black gram/urud dhal flour - 2 tsp
• Melted butter/butter - 2 tsp (at room temp)
• Asafoetida - 1/2 tsp
• Ajwain / omam - 1 tsp
• Water - 1/2 cup (more or less as needed to make a dough )
• Salt - as per taste (mostly 1/4th tsp)

Method

• Mix the rice flour and the black gram flour.

• To this, add the butter, ajwain seeds, and salt and mix well.

• Add asafoetida.

• Add Water little by little and make a smooth dough.

                 

                  

• In the murukku press, take half the quantity of the dough and put inside.

• In a plastic sheet make a round shaped murukku as shown by pressing the murukku press.

• Meanwhile, heat oil in kadai, in medium flame.
• When it is hot, slowly put one murukku at a time.

• When the iiisssshhhh sound stops from the murukku or the murukku becomes golden colour, take them out from the oil.

• Store in a airtight container and munch it whenever u want.

Note:

• When using salted butter, reduce the salt quantity while adding.
• Ajwain can be replaced by cumin seeds.
• I used store bought flours and they both are already fried. If not fry both the flours for a min or 2. 

Sending this to Lets party @ Jiya's Delicacy and Surabhi of My cookbook