Benne Muruku | Butter Muruku | How to make benne muruku?
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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
  1. Dry toast the sesame seeds till light golden. Set aside to cool
  2. Dry grind about ¼ Cup of fried gram/hurigadale and use only 1¼ Tbsp of the flour
  3. Take rice flour and fried gram flour in a mixing bowl
  4. Add salt
  5. Add toasted sesame seeds
  6. Add om/ajwain seeds
  7. Add butter. Rub the butter into the flours and make sure everything is mixed well
  8. Add just warm water little by little
  9. Make a smooth and soft dough. The dough should be pliable and not hard. Keep it covered in cling wrap or moist cloth
  10. Use the muruku plate of the chakli maker. Fit it in. Keep the oil to heat for deep frying
  11. Pinch a big ball off the dough and roll into a long shape. Put this inside the chakli maker
  12. On a greaseproof paper make a chakli shape by pressing the chakli maker
  13. Drop these chaklis in hot oil and deep fry them on meduium flame till light golden. Drain on paper towels
  14. 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/