Benne Muruku | Butter Muruku | How to make benne muruku?
Author: Vindhya Desai
Recipe type: Snack
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 2 Cups muruku
Crisp and crunchy snack, butter/benne muruku
Ingredients
1 Cup rice flour
1¼ Tbsp hurigadale hittu/fried gram flour/puthani hittu/chutney dal powder
2 Tsp butter
1 Tsp white sesame seeds/til/yellu
¼ Tsp carom seeds/om/ajwain
Salt to taste
Warm water for making dough
Oil for deep frying
Method
Dry toast the sesame seeds till light golden. Set aside to cool
Dry grind about ¼ Cup of fried gram/hurigadale and use only 1¼ Tbsp of the flour
Take rice flour and fried gram flour in a mixing bowl
Add salt
Add toasted sesame seeds
Add om/ajwain seeds
Add butter. Rub the butter into the flours and make sure everything is mixed well
Add just warm water little by little
Make a smooth and soft dough. The dough should be pliable and not hard. Keep it covered in cling wrap or moist cloth
Use the muruku plate of the chakli maker. Fit it in. Keep the oil to heat for deep frying
Pinch a big ball off the dough and roll into a long shape. Put this inside the chakli maker
On a greaseproof paper make a chakli shape by pressing the chakli maker
Drop these chaklis in hot oil and deep fry them on meduium flame till light golden. Drain on paper towels
Lightly break them up and serve these crunchy snacks with tea/coffee
Notes
Do not worry if they break up a bit while frying. Make sure they do not disintegrate completely. For making muruku we need to lightly break them up anyway. Adding butter makes them extremely light
Add a pinch of hing if you want
Adding just warm water makes the dough smooth and soft
Use any kind of chakli maker you have
Use sunflower oil or any thin cooking oil you like for frying. Always fry on medium heat for the chaklis to cook through and turn golden
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/benne-muruku/