Variety Butter Murukku

Tongue is the most active organ I guess, it always wants change, wants more, keeps getting bored with things. Usssss. Here is a simple yet intersting murukku snack with a lot of choice for the tongue. :)

You might ask me whats that in the center??? Yeah... its a murukku dough Ganesha. There are lots of myth in out culture and tradition. Mom being a theist, always prays to god for the dish to come out well by making a small Ganesha everytime. :)

Myth is a myth, but when it brings happiness to someone anything is fine and agreed isn't it. :)



White/ Plain Butter Murukku

Ingredients:

Rice flour - 5 cups
Urad dhall flour(fry in dry pan and powder it) - 1 cup
Butter - 50 gms
Asafoetida - a pinch
Cumin seeds - 2 tsp
Salt - for taste



Method:

Beat butter nicely in a plate and add all the other ingredients to it and mix well. Partition the mixture into multiple parts. Take one portion of the above mixture and add adequate water to it to make dough. Now put the dough in the muruku maker and squeeze it in the oil and fry till it becomes crisp.

Note: Do not mix the entire mixture into dough at one stretch. Doing that would lead to change of color of the dough when left alone for a long time. So make the mixture into dough by adding water as and when required.

Now to make it more interesting, lets add flavors to the same dough.

Orange Butter murukku

Add little chilly poweder and food color orange or red along with the above ingredients and make muruku in the same way. This would give you a gharam flavor and interesting look and feel.

Green Butter Murukku

Grind coriander leaves and some green chillies(according to your taste) very finely and add this to the above dough and mix well. This would give you the flavor of coriander leaves and would be hot with chillies too.. :)

You can make another variation of using mint leaves too.

Yellow Butter Murukku

Add a pinch of turmeric power and a little lemon extract to it and mix well. This would give yummy flavour as well as attractive color to it. :)







Written by: Nithya
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