Butter murukku recipe | Easy Butter Murukku

Nisha Madhulika |
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Butter Murukku is a snack which is crispy and soft because of butter residing in it.

Ingredients for Butter Murukku

Rice flour - 1 cup (170 gms)
Chickpea flour - ¾ cup (40 gms)
Butter - ¼ tbsp (50 gms)
Asafoetida - ½ pinch
Cumin seeds - 1.5 tsp
Salt - ½ tsp (to taste)
Oil - for frying

How to make Butter Murukku

For the Dough

Take ¾ cup of Chickpea flour in a bowl and roast ¼ portion of it in the pan while continuously stirring it for 3 minutes. Mix ½ cup of Chickpea Flour in it and add 1 cup Of Rice flour in it for the dough.

Preheat 1 cup of Water in a bowl for kneading the dough. Add ¼ cup of salted butter in it, 1/2 pinch of Asafoetida, 1.5 teaspoons of Cumin seeds, 1/2 teaspoon of Salt and boil water until butter melts in it. Mix them properly and add prepared butter masala water in it to knead the soft dough. Apply some oil on your palms to grease them and knead the smoother dough.

For the Butter Murukku

Preheat Oil to fry the butter murukku. Apply some Oil on your palms to grease them, lift a dough lump and roll it to give the shape which is favourable to the machine.

Cover rest of the dough and check the temperature of Oil by adding a dough lump in it. Rightly heated Oil and the medium flame is required to fry these Murukkus. Add them while spreading according to the capacity of a wok.

Flip them once the foam reduces and fry until Golden Brown. Murukkus appears Golden Brown, they have fried. Drain them out using a ladle and stop the ladle on the corner of a wok so that extra Oil moves back in it. Fry all the Murukkus in the same way and it takes 3-4 minutes to fry a single round of Butter Murukkus. Store them in an airtight container once they cool down and eat them for 2 months.