Rava/Sooji Murukku

 Try this tasty rava murukku for this Diwali. It is made of rava, rice flour, sesame seeds and butter.

Yields : 15 to 20 murukkus

INGREDIENTS:

Rava/Sooji - 1 cup

Rice Flour- 2 cups

Sesame seeds - 1 tablespoon

Red chilli powder - 1 teaspoon

Butter - 2 tablespoon

Salt - 1 teaspoon

Water - 2 1/4 cups

Oil - For deep frying

Asafoetida powder - a pinch

METHOD:

1. In a pan, heat 2 cups of water. When it starts to boil well, add 1 cup of rava. Do not add rava at once. Add little by little, and keep stirring continuously, so that there are no lumps . When the water all absorbed, add 2 tablespoon of butter and mix well. You can see the rava comes together and doesn't stick with the pan.

2. Take cooked rava in a bowl. Allow it to cool down a little bit. Now add 2 cups of rice flour, sesame seeds, salt, asafoetida powder, red chilli powder.

3.  Crumble and mix well . Also add 1/4 cup of water and mix well to form a moist  dough. You can adjust the water according to the need. The dough should be smooth . 

4. Grease the murukku hand press machine with oil. I used star shaped jalli. 

5. Heat sufficient oil in a pan. Take some dough, and put it in the handpress machine and make chaklis/muruku on the back side of perforated ladle, as shown in the video below.

6. Deep fry them in oil .

7. Rava murukku is ready !