Jan 10, 2011

PESARA CHEKRALU -- MOONG DAL MURUKU

This is one more variety of every body's favorite cruncy snack .Commonly murukus are made with rice flour but in this recipe I used maida(all purpose flour).Here we have to do little home work before we mix the dough with maida

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Steam maida:Tie maida in a thin muslin cloth .. spread a clean white muslin cloth and put maida in the midle of the cloth and take all four sides of the cloth in to your hand and tie the cloth tightly like a bag.Make sure that maida should'nt come out.keep this maida bag in a vessel and place this vessel in a steamer, steam cook for 25 to 30 minutes in a meadium heat. You can do this process in a pressure cooker too with out weight. Remove from cooker and break lumps and sieve the maida now this maida is ready to mix the muruku dough..
Now let's check the other ingredients..

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INGREDIENTS:--
Green gram dal(moongdal,pesarapappu) --- 1 cup
Steamed maida(allpurpose flour) ---- 2 cups
Seasame seeds -- 1 tab sp
Salt --- 1 tea sp
Butter --- 1 tab sp
Cumin and black pepper --- 2 tea sp tab sp coarsely powdered (dry roast both cumin and black pepper and grind in to coarse powder
Oil for deep frying
METHOD:--
1.Wash and cook moong dal in 2 cups of water till soft and water is absorbed completely.
2. Remove from heat and mash well, add salt, butter and cumin,pepper powder,seasame seeds mix well to combine every thing.
3. Add steamed maida little by little and mix in to a thick dough.
4.Heat oil for deep frying in a deep frying pan.
5. Set single star or small holes disc in to muruku maker and fill the muruku maker with dough, press murukus direct in to hot oil or you can make small murukus over a polythene sheet and drop them in to hot oil.
6. Deep fry murukus till crisp and nice golden color.Remove from oil and place them on a absorbent papper for few minutes to remove if any excess oil.
7.when they cool to roomtemperature, store them in a ari-tight container.
Enjoy this different murukus with a cup of tea or coffee......

19 comments:

Suganya said...

Perfect crunchy snack.... Sounds different.... Never steamed maida before.... YUM!

Rachana said...

Crispy, Crunchy and delicious Snack!

Pavithra Elangovan said...

Wow Rekha the chekralu chaala baagaundhi.. noar oorthundhi..

Unknown said...

one of fav. snacks..my kids love it too!...thanx for commenting on my blog...keep visiting!

notyet100 said...

looks perfect,..with tea,..

Indian Khana said...

Very new recipe and looks yum...perfect with tea as u said

Unknown said...

would love to have some..

chef and her kitchen said...

Lovely murukku..looking perfect...:)
just perfect to munch in wid evening tea..:)

veena said...

looks so crispy and delicious

Anu said...

A very nice blog and yummy recipe's..Happy to follow your blog..

Aruna Manikandan said...

wow!!!
looks crispy and delicious dear..
nice tempting clicks :)

Saritha said...

Nice snacks but lengthy process

Raks said...

We too make it similar to this,I love the flavor a lot! You have got perfect murukkus!

saritha said...

murukulu is my favorite...looking so crunchy ..

Reva said...

steamed maida...new o me...but the snack looks very crunchy and perfect to satisfy cravings..
Reva

Gayu said...

Murukku looks very yummy..Nice collection of recipes.Lovely space.

Gayu
http://ensamayalarangam.blogspot.com

sanjeeta kk said...

My fave. snack for all times!

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deepika said...

How long can we store these murukulu???

Unknown said...

Hi Deepika you can store them for 20 days to one month..:)