Thinai murukku /foxtail millet murukku
Ingredients
- Fox tail millet flour /thinai maavu - 1 cup
- Rice flour /Arisi maavu - 1/4 cup
- salt - as needed
- Bengal gram flour/kadala maavu - 1/4 cup
- Jeera/seeragam - 1 tsp
- Hing/asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
- Chilli powder - 1 tsp
- Hot oil/butter - 1 tsp
- Oil to fry
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl add all the flours with needed salt, chilli powder, hing.2.Add hot oil to it.3.Mix by adding water till it forms a loose dough that is not sticky.4.Heat a kadai with oil.5.Take murukku press add the needed dough now you can directly squeeze into the oil.6.Else can press it separately in a banana leaf or plastic sheet and transfer to hot oil.7.Oil should be at medium high.8.Fry the murukku’s till shh sound subsides take out in a tissue.
Notes
- Instead of bengal gram flour you can use urad dal flour or fried gram flour.
- Oil should be at correct temperature to fry the murukku.
- Bit of turmeric can also be added for colour.
- The murukku is ready when the shh sound subsides then you can take out from oil.