South Indian evening snacks are easy to make and best to store them in containers. Instead of burgers and pastry's try these home made tasty snacks items . Andhra style murukulu or jantikalu aka chakralu are crunchy and tasty snacks .Especially children are fond of these crispy snacks. Here I am sharing 6 varieties of murukulu aka jantikalu . The first one is basic style of south Indian murukulu or jantikalu.
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Murukulu/ Chakralu |
1. Murukulu / Jantikalu | Chakralu ( Andhra savoury snack ):
Ingredients :
- Rice Flour - 2 cups
- Gram Flour ( Besan ) - 1 cup
- Salt - 2 tsps or as per taste
- Water - as needed
- Red chili powder - 1 tbsp
- Sesame seeds ( nuvvulu ) - 1 tbsp
- Butter or ghee - 2 tsps
- Oil for frying
- Take a large bowl or basin. Mix the rice flour, gram flour melted butter , red chili powder ,salt and sesame seeds by slowly pouring the water. Make a soft dough.The consistency of dough should not be more watery or hard.Taste if salt is enough before deep frieng.
- Heat enough oil in a pan for deep fry . Take a Murukku press (savoi press ) and grease oil inside of the press.
- Fill the press with dough and squeeze out rounds into the hot oil.
- Fry them on both sides until a little golden brown color.
- Remove from oil with a slotted ladle and place them on paper napkin to absorb the excess oil.
- Repeat the same for the rest of the dough.
- Store in an airtight container after cool.
Ingredients :
- Rice flour -2 cups
- Urad dal - 1/2 cup
- Onions - 2
- Butter - 1 tbsp
- Salt - 2 tsps or as needed
- Cumin - 2 tsps
- Cooking soda - 1/2 tsp
- Red chili powder -1 tbsp
- Dry roast the urad dal in a pan and grind after cool and set aside.
- Grind the onions in the mixer and make a fine paste.
- In a wide vessel or basin combine the rice flour, urad dal flour, cumin ( jeera) powder,salt,red chili powder and cooking soda.
- Now add butter and onion paste to the above mix by adding water slowly to make a soft dough.
- In a kadai heat the oil for deep frying.
- Take a murukku /jantikalu press and grease oil inside.
- Fill with dough and squeeze out rounds into the oil.
- Fry till it turns golden brown in color.
- Remove the murukku from hot oil and place it on a paper towel to absorb the excess oil.
- Repeat this step until there is no dough left.
- Store in an airtight jar.
3.Peanut Murukulu | Groundnut Murukulu | Verusanaga pappu murukulu
Ingredients :
- Rice flour - 2 cups
- Peanuts ( Ground nuts ) - 1 cup
- Sesame seeds ( nuvvulu ) - 1 tbsp
- Ajwain (vaamu) - 1 tsp
- Red chili powder - 1tbsp
- Salt to taste
- Oil for frying
- Dry roast the peanuts in a pan and remove the skin. Grind it like a fine powder.
- In a bowl mix the rice flour, peanut powder, sesame seeds, ajwain, red chili powder and salt
- Add water to make a smooth dough dough.
- Heat oil in a pan .
- Fill the dough in murukku press and squeeze out murukku dough to the hot oil.
- Deep fry both sides of the murukku in hot oil , until it turns golden brown.
- Repeat the same process until there is no dough left.
- Drain the murukkus on paper towel to absorb the oil.
- Store i an airtight container.
4.Sago Murukku | Saggu Biyyam Murukulu
Ingredients:
- Rice flour - 1 cup
- Sago powder -1/2 cup
- Cumin - 1 tsp
- Red chili powder - 1 tbsp
- Salt to taste
- OIl for deep fry
- In a large vessel combine sago powder, rice flour, salt, red chili powder, cumin seeds
- Add 2 tea spoons hot oil to the mix.
- Add water and mix thorouly to make a soft dough.
- Fill the dough in murukku press and press it in hot oil and deep fry until golden brown.
- Remove from oil and place them on a paper towel.
- Allow to cool.Store them in an airtight container
Ingrdients :
- Moong dal - 1 cup
- Rice flour - 2 cups
- Butter - 1 tbsp
- Red chilli powder - 1 tbsp
- Salt to taste
- Oil for frying
- Dry roast the moong dal in a pan. Allow to cool.Grind in a mixer jar to make a fine powder.
- Combine the rice flour, moong dal powder , butter ,red chili powder and salt by adding water to make a soft dough.
- Take the murukku press and fill it with dough.
- Press the murukku in hot oil and fry till golde.
- Drain them on the kitchen towel.
- Store them in container..
Ingredients :
- Rice flour - 2 cups
- Urad dal ( Minapa pappu ) - 1 cup
- Butter or ghee - 1 tbsp
- Salt to taste
- Red chili powder - 1 tbsp
- Asafoetida 9 hing) powder - 1 tsp ( optional)
- Oil to deep fry
- Dry roast the urad dal in a pan and make a fine powder after cool.
- In a pan combine the rice flour,urad dal powder, butter, salt ,asafoetida, red chili powder and mix well.
- Add water gradually to make a soft dough.
- Now heat oil in a pan .
- Fill the dough in murukku press gently in the hot oil.
- Fry both sides of the murukku until golden .
- Repeat the same process for the rest of the dough.
- Drain them on the kitchen towel.
- Let them cool completely.
- Store them in an airtight container .
- Serve the murukku with tea.