Mullu Murukku
Spiky, star-pressed rice flour and urad dal flour murukku enriched with coconut milk, butter and sesame, deep-fried until crunchy. A festive Tamil tea-time namkeen, also called mullu thenkuzhal.
Ingredients
Main
- Rice Flour — 300 g (ground)
- salt — 1 tsp (whole)
- urad dal flour — 1.2 piece (ground)
- sesame seeds — 2 tbsp (whole)
- Butter — 28 g (whole)
- Thick Coconut Milk — 120 g (whole)
- ajwain — 2 g (whole)
Tempering
- Asafoetida — 1 pinch (ground)
Method
- firstly, in a large mixing bowl take 2½ cup rice flour and ½ cup urad flour.
- also add 2 tbsp sesame seeds, ½ tsp ajwain, pinch hing, 2 tbsp butter and 1 tsp salt.
- mix well making sure everything is well combined.
- further add ½ cup coconut milk and combine the flour. you can add more coconut milk if you like the flavour.
- add water as required and knead the dough.
- knead to a smooth and soft dough adding water as required.
- now take star mould and fix to the chakli maker.
- grease the chakli maker with some oil. this prevents dough from sticking to mould.
- furthermore, make a cylindrical shape out of dough and place the dough inside the maker.
- tighten the lid and start preparing chaklis.
- on the wet cloth or butter paper make small spiral shape chaklis by pressing.
- seal the ends so that it doesn’t fall apart while deep frying.
- take one murukku at a time and slide it into the hot oil. or bake in a preheated oven at 180-degree celsius for 15 minutes.
- flip the murukku and fry on medium flame till they turn crispy from both sides.
- furthermore, drain over a paper towel to remove excess oil.
- finally, serve crispy and mullu murukku / mullu thenkuzhal with masala tea or masala milk.
Common questions
- Mullu Murukku ko English mein kya kehte hain?
- मुल्लू मुरुक्कू ko English mein Mullu Murukku likhte hain.
- Ek plate Mullu Murukku mein kitni calories hoti hain?
- 186 kcal per plate.
- Kitna time lagta hai?
- 55 min lagta hai — 15 min taiyari, 40 min pakana.