Rice Murukku

Thought preparing muruku would be difficult and takes much time. But to the wonder, it was so easy and simple. During festival times, when we hear from friends about their muruku and other sweets preparation at home, we used to think how on earth these guys are having this much time to prepare murkku and now we found that to be very simple and can be prepared in an hour or so.

Ingredients

1. Muruku maker
2. Rice flour - 4 cups
3. Urad flour - 1 cup
4. Sesame seeds - 2 tsp
5. Cumin seeds - 2 tsp
6. Butter - 1 tsp
7. Salt - to taste(2 - 21/2 tsp of iodised salt should be fine, I guess...be cautious in adding salt..because it cant be added later and it can spoil the entire effort, if added more).
8. Water - as needed
9. Oil - To fry

Method

1. Mix rice, urad flour, sesame seeds, cumin seeds, butter and salt.
2. Add water to the mixture slowly and make it as a dough(neither too soft/watery nor too dry).
3. Put the dough in the muruku maker
4. Heat oil in a pan and squeeze the muruku in the oil in a twisted shape(as much as you can)

Note: if you are afraid of squeezing directly into oil, reduce it to a medium flame and try it out..Oil will not pop out...you can give a bold try...