Muthucharam Murukku | Mullu Murukku

Muthucharam is a delicious crunchy and traditional South Indian murukku variety made with processed rice flour, green gram dal flour and besan flour. Nobody knows why it is called so, maybe because it resembles pearl (Muthu in Tamil )necklace( Charam in Tamil ). Basically this murukku is nothing but our mullu murukku as its locally called.

Ingredients

Homemade processed rice flour-1 cup

Green gram dhal flour-1/2 cup

Besan flour-1/4 cup

Cumin seeds -1 tsp

Sesame seeds-1 tsp

Asafoetida-1/4 tsp

Unsalted butter-1 tsp

Salt to taste

Oil for deep frying

Method

👉Mix the rice flour , green gram dhal flour,besan flour,salt, asafoetida ,cumin seeds,sesame seeds and butter well.

👉Sprinkle water little by little and make a soft dough.cover it wet muslin cloth until use.

👉Heat oil in a wide kadai for deep frying.

👉Keep 3-4 flat ladles or plates greased with oil ready.

👉Grease the murukku maker with oil and fix the single star shaped disc.

👉Fill the murukku acchu with small quantity of dough.

Press it on to the ladles.

👉Gently slide them into hot oil.
👉Cook the murukkus until the colour changes to light golden brown and the oil stops bubbling.

👉Drain the murukku on to a tissue paper to remove excess oil.

👉Allow the mullu muruku to cool down completely and then store in airtight container.

Preparation Time-30 mins

Yield -10 nos

Note -

For homemade processed rice flour recipeclick here

✍️For green gram dhal flour and besan flour-

✍️Dry roast the dhals separately until you get nice aroma and colour changes to light golden brown, powder them finely in movie,seive it and then use.