Murukku

Ingredients :

Rice flour - 3 cups
Black gram - 1 cup
Yellow corn flour - 1 tbsp
Gram flour - 1 tbsp
Butter - 1 small cube
(1" thick and long)
Sesame seeds - A few

Asafoetida - A pinch

Salt - As reqd

Chilly powder - 1 tsp (optional)

Oil for deep frying

Preparation method :

1)Roast the rice powder, till the roasted smell comes. Keep it aside.

2)Powder the black gram in a mixer, till fine.
3)Fry this powder along with the Bengal gram flour and the corn flour.
:- The corn flour adds to the crispiness.
4)Add sesame seeds, salt, butter cube, asafoetida and chilly powder.
6)Add water and knead the above into a soft dough.
7)Heat oil in a wide mouthed kadai or a pan.
8)Grease the murukku mould and put required amount of dough into the mould and squeeze it to round or any other shape into the hot oil directly.
9)When slightly brown, reverse it to cook the other side.
10)Drain off the excess oil and allow it to cool.