Baked Muruku

This week my theme for BM is Deep fried snacks made healthy by baking or steaming. Isn't it challenging?, Yes it is challenging for me. When i saw this theme in BM themes  immediatly picked it. But that time i do not have any idea what to do! The theme was deep fried snacks made healthy by baking or steaming. Most of the snacks in Indian cuisines are deep fried once so I made a list of deep fried snacks. Like Muruku, pakodi, bajji, bonda, vada and many more and i picked some from the list. Muruku is the top on that list, whenever i make muruku this idea will come to my mind. Every time i keep that idea a side like ok will do that next time.....
                                                                   Last month when i make muruku i set a side some dough and baked some murukus in the oven. That time they came little hard because in that dough i used very little butter and mixed the dough with more water. That is what we mix the regular muruku dough. The flours i used in that dough is  2 cups of rice flour with 1/2 cup urad dal flour. I did not add baking powder, that time may be because of all these reasons those muruku came out hard.
                                                               This time I wanted to make my baked muruku little more healthy. I made muruku with wheat flour and fried chanadal powder (daliya or veyinchina senagapappu, porikadalai). And added baking powder and butter like how we make cookies. But this dough is little harder then normal muruku dough so little difficult to press out the murukus from the muruku press. Instead of muruku press you can use a piping bag with a star nozzle To make the muruku. Oven heat depends on your oven, mine is an otg that i am using from last 15 years. For me it took 15 minutes in 150 degree C. and i preheated the oven on 200 degree C for 10 minutes before. Now lets check how i made Baked Muruku......
INGREDIENTS:---
Wheat flour  --- 1 cup
Fried chickpea flour --- 1/2 cup
Rice flour  ----- 1 tab sp
Salt   ---- 1/4 tea sp
Cumin seeds  --- 1 tea sp
Red chilli powder  --- 1 tea sp ( you can reduce this according to your taste)
Baking powder  --- 1/2 tea sp
Butter  --- 50 gms
1. Take 1/2 cup fried chick peas add 1 tea sp cumin seeds and grind in to a fine powder.

 2. In a big plate or in a mixing bowl take 1 cup wheat flour and add 1/2 cup ground fried chick pea and cumin flour. 

3. Add rice flour, red chilli powder, salt, baking powder, to wheat flour and chickpea flour.

4. Mix all this ingredients well with your hand to combine every thing well.

5. Make a well in the center and add butter to this flour mixture.

6. Mix the flour mixture with butter and this mixture should turn in to bread crumbs constency as showen in the above picture.

7. If you hold this butter and flour mixture in your hand that should form like a ball like  in the above picture.

8. Now sprinkle little water and make dough. This dough should be like in cookie dough consistency. You can see in the picture i took full cup water and used that much means 1/4 cup water i used to make the dough.

9. In the mean while pre-heat your oven in 200 degree C for 10 minutes.

10. Place a star nozzel in your muruku press.

11. Divide the dough in to two portions and place one portion in muruku press and close.

12. Grease a baking try with few drops of oil. Press the dough trough muruku press in to small circles on the greased baking try.

13. Now place the muruku try in the middle rack of the oven and reduce the temperature to 150 degree C., set the time for 15 minutes.

14. After 15 minutes remove the try from oven and let it cool. To check the murukus are done or not. Wait for 5 minutes after you remove them from oven, break one piece eat and see if you find any raw smell then bake them for 5 more minutes.

 I am sure they will be ready in 15 minutes. When you bake this murukus with in 10 minutes your house will fill with the aroma that is the first thing that you should understand that your murukus will be ready in 5 minutes.
Enjoy the crisp murukus with a cup of chai or coffee...
This is my first recipe with the theme of deep fried snack made healthy by baking or steaming for blogging marathon 18 th edition at Vallis spice your life lets check blogging marathon page