Ragi Muruku ( With Step-Wise pictures)

Ragi Muruku

My kid is a great lover of muruku.. My Mother In Law is an expert in preparing muruku..  When we are about to visit our native, She used to ask my  kid,  what he wants,.. He always  says that he wants muruku .. . He is such a lover of muruku.. When i prepared this ragi muruku for the first time, he asked me, amma, will it turn to yellow?? And he said that he didn't want the black muruku.. he wanted only the yellow one..  I was explaining him that this  muruku is very healthy and he should eat this.. After  tasting  the muruku, he started enjoying it.. He was telling, Amma, Healthy muruku is super ma!! .. Yes indeed this muruku is very tasty and crispy...Here is that super recipe..

Ingredients:

Ragi Flour          - 2 cups

Rice Flour          - 1 cup

Fried Gram         - 1/2 cup (pori kadalai)

Salt                     - As required

Chilli Powder     - 2 tsp

Asafoetida          - a pinch

Sesame Seeds     - 1 tsp

Oil                      - For frying

Procedure:

• Grind fried gram to powder.
• Mix all the ingredients together. Add 2 tbsp of hot oil to the muruku flour. By doing so, muruku will be crunchy and it won't absorb oil too. Adding oil is enough and  no need to add butter/ dalda. But if you wish for the flavor can add.

• Add water in small instances and start kneading.  Knead it like chapathi dough.

• Take a muruku press. Take the star shaped plate with a single hole as below.

•  Grease a plastic sheet with little oil.. Insert muruku flour in the muruku press and start pressing. Slightly rotate in the clockwise dirction.

• Heat oil in a pan.. When the oil is hot, slightly drop muruku in the oil.. When its cooked on one side, flip it to the other side.. As the muruku itself is  brown in color you can't find whether it is cooked or not by its color. When the bubbles in the oil reduce,it shows muruku is cooked.
• Take it from oil, Drain it on a paper towel and serve it.
• If you don't have much patience to do with the single hole muruku, replace it with a three hole  star shaped muruku plate.

• Fill the muruku press and start pressing..Enjoy this tasty and healthy Muruku..