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how to make manaparai murukku /rice(arisi)murukku recipe(diwalisnack)

Total Time 40 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • Rice flour readymade/homemade - 1cup
  • Salt - 3/4 tsp or as per taste
  • Butter soft - 3/4 tbsp
  • Water - 1/2 cup
  • Ajwain/omam - 1/4 tsp
  • Black sesame seeds/karuppu ellu - 1/2 tsp
  • Jeera/seeragam - 1/4 tsp
  • Asafoetida - a pinch
  • Groundnut oil to fry

Instructions
 

  • Mix up ajwain,sesame seeds,jeera,hing and needed salt to water and stir well and keep ready.
  • Usually 1/2 cup and one or more tbsp of water may be required for the making the dough.
  • Depending upon the rice flour quality we may need more or less water(so carefully adjust and add water)
  • Take a broad vessel add rice flour and butter mix it well.
  • To this add mixed up water little by little and make a dough.
  • Take a murukku press with single star attachment grease the insides of press.
  • Add the dough into it.
  • You can squeeze on back side of a laddle or a plastic sheet and then transfer to oil for frying.
  • Heat oil in a kadai when its hot put the squeezed murukku and wait for few seconds turn it and after that take out in a tissue.
  • This is the first batch frying.
  • Then put another batch make in a same way.
  • Now again add the first batch adjust the flame and cook till its “shh”sound subsides.
  • When we take out it will be slightly golden and this is the right colour for this manaparai murukku.
  • This way make all the muruku's and take out in a tissue ,enjoy.

Notes

The murukku dough should be perfectly soft and not a hard dough.
Cooking it twice gives this murukku a nice crispy texture.
Be careful while adding salt.
Use only groundnut oil for exact murukku taste.