Arisi Maavu Murukku - Amma's Special

Arisi Maavu Murukku – Crispy deep fried snack prepared using rice flour and roasted gram seasoned with cumin seeds. Perfect festive recipe to add to your celebration.

Here, I come with another recipe for the festive occasion – Murukku. Well, there are various forms and hundred ways of preparing murukku. The method and the ingredients vary from region to region. A delicious crispy tea time snack and is the common snack in all the South Indian households. There are spicy versions of it and called by different names. However, maybe, my favorite is my amma’s murukku. Murukku is an inevitable part of our Deepavali. Amma used to prepare dabbas of murukku a week prior to Deepavali. And by the time of Deepavali, the Dabba would be almost empty. How I missed those murukkus these days. Finally, Amma is here and what could you ask? Here is my favorite version of murukku.

Ingredients:

2 cup Rice Flour
½ cup Roasted Gram / Pottu Kadalai
1 tablespoon Cumin Seeds
A pinch of Asafoetida
2 tablespoon Butter
Salt, as needed
Water, as needed
Oil for deep frying

Method:

In a mixer, add roasted gram and grind them into a fine powder.
In a large bowl, add rice flour, roasted gram powder, salt, cumin seeds and asafoetida. Add water little by little and combine them together. Knead them to form a dough similar to the one which we prepare for string hoppers/ Idiyappam.
Meanwhile, Heat oil in a kadai over a high flame.
Once the oil is hot, reduce the flame to medium.
Using a string hopper presser, add dough and press them in round fashion at the back of the greased plate. Use any form of the plates you love in the presser. We used the plate with a Star shaped hole for the murukku.
Slide in the pressed murukku gently into the heated oil and cook over medium flame until it is cooked evenly and turns slightly brownish.
Repeat the same process with the remaining dough.
Cook the murukku’s in a batch. Don’t overload the kadai as they will not cook properly if overcrowded.
Ensure the oil is hot to cook the murukku evenly and crispy.
The consistency of the dough should not be watery or should not be rigid.
Allow them to cool down a bit and store them in an air-tight container. They will stay crispy for about 10 days.
Celebrate the festive season with murukku and lots of joy.