Alavanthipuram Murukku
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 | Author: sethu

Ingredients:

  • Rice flour 4 cup
  • Ural dal 1 cup
  • Butter 2 tsp
  • Salt
  • Omam (carom seeds) 1 tsp
  • Jeera (Cumin) 1 tsp
  • Ellu (Gingelly/Sesame seeds) 1tsp
  • Perungayam (Asafoetida) 2 pinch

Procedure:

  1. Prep:
    • Roast the ural dal in pan without oil till it turns light brown.
    • Let the urad dal cool and then grind it into a fine powder
  2. Mix the rice flour and the urad dal powder together. Add salt and butter and mix well
  3. Add the omam (carom), jeera (cumin), ellu (gingelly/sesame) to the flour and mix well
  4. Add perungayam (asafoetida) powder to water and mix with the flour to make dough
  5. Squeeze the dough through a muruku press (extruder) to onto a oiled plate and then drop the dough into oil to fry it till its golden brown. Use plain round pattern in the muruku press (extruder).
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Category: Snacks
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4 Responses

  1. 1
    v raghavan 

    Is this Alavanthipuram near Swamimalai? It is my birthplace.the first house while entering the agraharam on the left side. (Seetharaman family).

    Raghavan

  2. 2
    sethu 

    Hi Mr.Raghavan
    The same place – I am the daughter of Alavanthipuram Nagaraja Padayachiar of East Street. Glad to see your comment-Where r u now? bye

  3. 3
    Ramesh 

    Dear Mr. Raghavan,

    The first house is Ramunna’s house, sorry i am unabe to place you correctly. Are you referring to Kannukupillai Seetharaman mama?

    I belong belong to Alavanthipuram and my parents are still there. We belong to chinna pannai (Sama and Nagarajan family).

  4. 4
    vijayaraj 

    akka,
    alavanthipuram Murukkula thengai pal (cocunut milk) add pannanum. Adding cocunut milk make more delicious

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