Kai Muruku Prepared with Muruku Press

I would like to confess a thing about this recipe. Traditionally it is prepared without Muruku press and using just hands. Since i couldn't do it, i used star shaped nozzle and prepared this muruku. This muruku stands unique in two things. 1. It is prepared with Par-boiled rice 2. And instead of preparing muruku with flour, rice is soaked and ground to a batter and it is used to prepare muruku.

Over to the crunchiest and tastiest muruku recipe..

Yields : Around 20 muruku

Preparation Time : 30 minutes + Soaking Time

Ingredients:

Par Boiled Rice             - 1 cup (Pulungal Arisi)
Urad Dal Flour              - 1/4 cup
Butter                             - 2 tbsp
Sesame Seeds                 - 1 tsp (Ellu)
Salt                                 - As required
Oil                                  - For deep frying

Procedure:

• Soak Parboiled rice for 2 hours and after that grind it to a smooth batter adding very little water. See to that you add very little water, just enough to grind rice or else it will be difficult to press muruku.
• To prepare Urad Dal Flour, dry roast urad dal till it leaves nice aroma and after that grind it to a powder. Sieve the flour. Your urad dal flour is ready now. Make a note that we are adding 1/4 cup of Urad dal flour and not urad dal.
• Take a bowl. Add ground parboiled rice batter, Urad dal flour, salt, sesame seeds and butter to it. Start kneading the dough till it reaches tight consistency like below.

• If you have added more water while grinding rice, the dough consistency will be little watery. In such case, you can place the dough in a cloth for some time, so that cloth will absorb excess water. If the dough is very much tight, it will be difficult for you to press. In such case you can add little water to loosen the dough.
• Take a  muruku press. Place little dough in it and start pressing it on a greased sheet. pressing it in a greased plastic sheet helps to transfer muruku easily to hot oil.

• Heat oil in a pan. When its hot, slowly transfer pressed muruku to it. Fry it in medium flame, till muruku is cooked completely and it turned crispier. Drain oil and enjoy your muruku. If you are preparing it in correct consitency, muruku won't absorb oil at all.. Your crunchy, munchy muruku is ready!!

Ragi Muruku ( With Step-Wise pictures)

Ragi Muruku

My kid is a great lover of muruku.. My Mother In Law is an expert in preparing muruku..  When we are about to visit our native, She used to ask my  kid,  what he wants,.. He always  says that he wants muruku .. . He is such a lover of muruku.. When i prepared this ragi muruku for the first time, he asked me, amma, will it turn to yellow?? And he said that he didn't want the black muruku.. he wanted only the yellow one..  I was explaining him that this  muruku is very healthy and he should eat this.. After  tasting  the muruku, he started enjoying it.. He was telling, Amma, Healthy muruku is super ma!! .. Yes indeed this muruku is very tasty and crispy...Here is that super recipe..

Ingredients:

Ragi Flour          - 2 cups

Rice Flour          - 1 cup

Fried Gram         - 1/2 cup (pori kadalai)

Salt                     - As required

Chilli Powder     - 2 tsp

Asafoetida          - a pinch

Sesame Seeds     - 1 tsp

Oil                      - For frying

Procedure:

• Grind fried gram to powder.
• Mix all the ingredients together. Add 2 tbsp of hot oil to the muruku flour. By doing so, muruku will be crunchy and it won't absorb oil too. Adding oil is enough and  no need to add butter/ dalda. But if you wish for the flavor can add.

• Add water in small instances and start kneading.  Knead it like chapathi dough.

• Take a muruku press. Take the star shaped plate with a single hole as below.

•  Grease a plastic sheet with little oil.. Insert muruku flour in the muruku press and start pressing. Slightly rotate in the clockwise dirction.

• Heat oil in a pan.. When the oil is hot, slightly drop muruku in the oil.. When its cooked on one side, flip it to the other side.. As the muruku itself is  brown in color you can't find whether it is cooked or not by its color. When the bubbles in the oil reduce,it shows muruku is cooked.
• Take it from oil, Drain it on a paper towel and serve it.
• If you don't have much patience to do with the single hole muruku, replace it with a three hole  star shaped muruku plate.

• Fill the muruku press and start pressing..Enjoy this tasty and healthy Muruku..