Spicy Murukku is a delicious snack recipe, which can be prepared at home using some easily available ingredients. Here’s how you go about preparing this tasty snack recipe. Take a large bowl and add brown rice flour, gram flour, roasted black gram flour, red chilli powder, asafoetida powder, butter, salt and sesame seeds.
The Low Carb movement in Kerala is catching on, regardless. Lunch and dinner can be enjoyable when you have ‘sides’ that allow you to forget the ‘mains’. Staying close to your roots and familiar tastes also improves your chances of sticking with the diet. We CAN live, rice, “With Or Without You”!
Deep fry the Murukku on medium heat. Fry it in batches, in moderately hot oil of about 180 to 190 degrees C. The oil should not be smoking hot, nor warm. Extremely hot oil will burn or brown the snack too quickly. Warm oil will make it absorb more oil. Scale easily to make a larger batch of this Murukku Recipe. Halve, to make a smaller batch.
Preparation for murukulu or murukku You can use urad dal or roasted gram for this recipe. If using urad dal, dry roast 4 tbsps urad dal on a medium heat until lightly golden. Cool and make a fine powder. Use only 4 tbsp flour from this. Grease the murukku mould with little oil.