Peanut murukku recipe
Crunchy peanut murukku, easy-to-make murukku recipe with rice flour and peanut paste, recipe with video and step by step pictures.
Servings: 13 murukkus
Ingredients
- 1 cup Rice flour
- ¼ cup Raw Peanut
- 1 tbsp Ghee or butter
- 2 tsp Red chili powder
- 1 tsp White sesame seeds
- Salt as needed
- ¼ tsp Asafoetida
- Oil for deep frying
Instructions
- Soak the raw peanuts in water for an hour.
- Drain the water and grind this into a very smooth paste.
- You can add water while grinding.
- In a wide bowl add the rice flour. I used home made rice flour. You can use store bought one or idiyapam flour too.
- Ensure the flour is smooth and not coarse.
- Add the peanut paste, red chili powder, white sesame seeds, salt, asafoetida and hot ghee.
- Mix well nicely.
- Sprinkle water little by little and form a non sticky smooth dough.
- Divide this into parts.
- I used thenkuzhal achu, the three dots one.
- Heat the oil for deep frying.
- Put a portion of the dough into the murukku press.
- Press murukku into hot oil.
- Keep the flame medium.
- Fry on both sides till the shh sound of the oil subsides.
- Take it out and drain the excess oil in kitchen towel.
- Repeat this for the rest of the dough.
- Always keep the dough covered.
- Store in dry container.
Notes
Notes:
1. Instead of red chili powder you can grind 3-4 green chili along with peanuts and make the murukku.
2. Peanut murukku stays crunchy and stays good for 2 weeks.
