4 cups Raw rice
Half cup White gram
25 gms White sesame seeds
25 gms Cumin seeds
2 tablespoons Asafetida powder
100 gms Butter
Table salt - to taste
Oil - for frying
Method
- Wash and clean the rice well. Let it out to dry and once it has dried completely, powder it nicely.
- Fry the gram orange and powder it and keep it aside.
- Mix the powdered rice, powdered gram, white sesame seeds, cumin seeds, asafetida powder, butter and salt together, without adding water. Take a little of this mixture, add water to it to get a dough like consistency. Now take this dough and twist it into circular shapes of the murukku (chakkli).
- Heat oil in a kadai. Test how hot it is by dropping a pinch of dough into it - if it sinks, the oil hasn't become hot enough. If the dough springs to the top with bubbles all around it, then the oil is just ready.
- Drop in the murukku gently into the hot oil and fry golden brown. Keep flipping the sides till the murukku is done.
- Store in an air tight container.