Murukku(Urad dal) | Butter Murukku | Janthikalu

 WE NEED:

• Rice flour- 3 cups
• Urad dal- 1/2 cup
• Cumin- hand ful
• Hing- 1 tsp
• Sesame seeds- 2 Tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Oil to deep fry
• Red chili powder- 1 Tbsp

HOW WE DO IT:

• Dry roast urad dal for 2 to 3 minutes. The urad dal doesn't need to turn brown, it just has to heat.
• Then dry roast the flour if its store bought for 2 to 3 minutes let it cool.
• Once the dal cools down, take a big bowl, add in urad dal powder, add in the cumin, red chili powder, salt to taste, toasted sesame seeds and rice flour and add in water little by little and mix the dough like chapati dough.
• Let it sit for 10 minutes. Wet the hands with oil and murukku maker as well.
• Take the dough with oiled hands, put it in the muruku maker, make murukku with the help of murukku maker, if the dough dries out add in little oil to it. Cover the dough always with wet cloth.
• Heat oil and drop the murukku directly into the oil.

Enjoy the delicious murukku while hot or at room temperature. You can store this for a month in air tight containers.