Thenglu / Murukku

Butter Murukku or Thenglu in Karnataka is a deep fried snack made out of rice flour.This use to be my favorite snack when I was a kid.This is the perfect tea time snack,this is usually done during festivals like Diwali or Navrathri festivals.
This thenglu/ Murukku is done with both rice flour and urad flour along with salt,cumin,asafoetida and red chilli powder.

Ingredients,
Rice flour - 3 cups
Urad flour- 1 cup
Salt - 1 tablespoon
Red chilli powder- 3/4 of a tablespoon (Vary according to taste)
Jeera- 1 tablespoon
Asafoetida/Hing- a pinch
Butter- 2 tablespoons
water - enough to knead into dough
Cooking oil- For deep frying.

1. Take rice flour and urad flour in a large bowl and add red chilli powder,salt ,asafoetida and cumin seeds.Mix well.
2. Add 2 tablespoons of melted butter.
3. Add water little by little and mix well into dough.Just like chapathi/roti dough not too hard and not too soft.
4. Grease the chakli press and the perforated plate with cooking oil.Place the plate inside the chakli press.
5. Take a handful of the dough and press into the chakli press.Place the lid and turn to get a murukku shape.
6. Deep fry them in oil on both the sides on medium flame one by one.
7. Place them on kitchen tissue paper and store them in air tight jars.

Take rice flour and urad flour in a large bowl.

Add red chilli powder,cumin seeds,salt and hing and mix

well.

Add melted butter.

Slowly add water little by little and make dough.

Grease the inside part of chakli press and the perforated

plate with cooking oil.

Place the perforated plate inside the chakli press.

Take a handful of dough and press it inside the chakli press.

Place the lid and make murukku shapes

Make murukku shapes and the deep fry them in oil

on both the sides on medium flame one by one.

You can even directly press them in hot oil if you are 

comfortable.

Thenglu/ Murukku

Thenglu/ Murukku