Vanilla Sweet Murukku

Sometimes addition of few ingredients may yield new taste or flavor to a dish or snack.This is a sweeter variation of our traditional tea-time snack Murukku and done with Refined flour Mixed with sugar and vanilla essence.U can also try this recipe with wheat,Ragi,Rice,Besan,Health flour-mix(Sathu Maavu) or Gramflour etc. Store it in an Airtight container-it can stay good for 3-4 days.Enjoy ur Teatime!.BonAppetit!

Vanilla Sweet Murukku - Vanilla-flavored Sweet Murukku made with maidaflour

Ingredients

    1 cup maida or refined flour
    60 gms sugar - powdered
    1 tsp vanilla essence
    1 tbsp white sesame seeds (optional)
    a pinch of salt
    3 tbsp butter
    Needed warm water
    400 ml refined oil for frying

Directions

    1.Sift it once with sugar and refined flour.Mix it with butter,sesame seeds(optional) and a pinch of salt.
    2.Sprinkle enough warm water over it and add vanilla essence and Mix well.knead it like a smooth chapati flour.     3.Heat oil in a non-stick kadai and take small orange-sized dough and put it over the muruku- mould (Round or Star Shaped Murukku Plate ) and press or squeeze it.Deep fry them till golden brown.
    4.Repeat the same with the remaining dough using the same Murukku apparatus(which looks like stringhoppers apparatus).
    5.Tasty Vanilla Sweet Murukku is ready to be served.

Maida Ghee Murukku

Very tasty and traditional tea-time snack of Tamil Nadu or the taste of South India.Instead of maida,you can also use wheat,Ragi,Rice,Besan or Gram flour etc. Store it in an Airtight container - it can stay good for a week.Enjoy ur Teatime!.BonAppetit!

Maida Ghee Murukku - Murukku made using maida flour with ghee

 

Ingredients

    2 cups maida or refined flour
    2 tbsp finely-powdered urad dhal
    1 tbsp cumin seeds
    1 tbsp white sesame seeds
    1/2 tspp or needed salt
    60 ml ghee
    Needed warm water
    400 ml refined oil for frying

Directions

    1.Sift it once.Steam cook little water sprinkled maida flour with needed salt(prepare the Maida flour like U do for steamed puttu) for 5 mins or upto 1 whistle.Let it cool.
    2.Mix the steam-cooked maida,powdered urad dhal,ghee, cumin seeds,needed salt with warm water into a thick dough.
    3.Heat oil in a non-stick kadai and take lemon sized dough and put them in the muruku mould (Star Shaped Murukku Plate ) and press or squeeze it .Deep fry them till golden brown.
    4.Do murukku also using the same Murukku apparatus(which looks like stringhoppers apparatus) and deep fry them till golden brown.
    5.Tasty Maida Murukku is ready to be served.