Butter Murukku / Chakali (2nd recipe)

Butter Murukku / Chakali (2nd recipe)

Butter Murukku / Chakali (2nd recipe) - A very popular deep

fried snack in Indian cuisine!!

• Please use same measuring cup to measure rice flour,
• urad dal and water. Ratio of rice flour and urad dal is
• 3: 1 (Here I used Indian standard measuring cup of 100 ml / 4 oz capacity)
• 3 cups rice flour (Indian standard measuring cup of 100 ml /
• 4 oz capacity) Nutriyes brand rice flour available in Chennai.
• 1 cup urad dal flour
• (first measure urad dal and then make a powder in a small mixer bowl) Please pick
• good quality urad dal (without any impurities and latest manufacturing date)
• 1 teaspoon black til (black sesame seeds) or 1 teaspoon
• jeera (cumin seeds)
• 1 teaspoon salt (or to taste)
• ½ teaspoon hing (asafoetida / kaayam)
• 300 ml oil for deep frying
• Sieve rice flour and urad dal flour separately. Sieve twice.
• In a wide bowl, mix sieved flours, salt, butter, hing and sesame
• seeds (til) or jeera. Mix well with finger tips until well combined and forms
• like soft bread crumbs.
• First start with 1 cup water and later adjust with extra ¼ cup
• water and make a medium soft dough (neither too hard nor too soft). If it’s
• too hard, it won’t come out from murukku mould. If it’s too soft, it’ll
• break and we won’t get proper shape of
• the murukku. If the dough is become hard
• when making murukku, remove dough from
• the murukku mould, sprinkle little water (1 – 2 teaspoon), knead again (until

soft) and then return back to murukku mould. First prepare murukku (approximately 17 - 18 nos).

Put this dough in a murukku / chakali mould and press it to

chakali shapes ( long strips, or desired shapes and sizes ) on a paper or a

clean plastic sheet / aluminum foil.

Heat oil in a wide kadai / frying pan and reduce heat to

medium. Do not fry on high heat. Transfer this chakkulis / murukku into the

cooking oil and fry on a medium heat

until light golden color and crisp in 3

batches, please keep a safe distance from the gas stove (5 or 6 murukku at a time, depending upon the size of the kadai /

frying pan). Drain out from oil and place

it on kitchen towel to absorb extra oil. Please use 2 – 3 paper towels to

absorb extra oil. Serve as snack or with tea / coffee. It’s a popular snack for

Vinayaka Chaturthi..