This snack is made during festivals and special occasions like Diwali. This can be stored for weeks without refrigeration.
Thenkuzhal
Course: SnacksCuisine: Indian, TamilDifficulty: Medium
Servings
25
servingsPrep time
10
minutesCooking time
40
minutesThis snack is made during festivals and special occasions like Diwali. This can be stored for weeks without refrigeration.
Ingredients
4 cups raw rice
1 cup urad dal
5 tbsp butter
1/4 tsp asafoetida powder
2 tsp cumin seeds
2 tsp salt – to taste
oil for deep frying
Directions
- Wash rice and spread it on a clean cloth and dry in the shade.
- In a dry kadai add the urad dhal and fry slightly. Cool it. Mix both rice and dhal and send it to Mill for grinding it to a fine powder. (See notes below, for alternate steps)
- Sieve the flour. Add cumin seeds, asafetida powder, salt and butter to the flour and mix by hand thoroughly.
- Now add water little by little and make a dough.
- Take small quantity of dough and put it in the Thenkuzhal Press (Murukku Atchu) with three small holes and press it in small circular motion directly to the hot oil.
- Fry till it becomes crispy and nice golden yellow. But ensure not to brown.
- Take out from oil and store it in a airtight container.
Notes
- If you cannot find a Mill near to your place, you can use rice flour and urad dhal flour in the ratio 4:1/2. In that case, fry the urad dhal in a dry kadai and powder it in a mixie. Sieve it and add it to the rice flour.
- You can also add a handful of chutney dhal powdered finely.
I Have tried your ragi murukku. It’s excellent ,tasty and crispy. You have given appropriate measurements. My mother liked it very much. Thx
Thank you Alamelu Ganapathy for your kind feed back.
Tried thenkuzhal & thattai came out very well. Doing it for first time. Thanks for the receipe
Thank you for your feed back Indu.
Need some veg recpies can you please send it to me now (andhara style)
Need some veg recpies can you please send it to me now
I tried today… It came very crispy and tasty.
How long to soak the rice