Instant Rice Flour Butter Murukku Vennai Murukku Benne Chakli

Butter Murukku Benne Chakli Vennai Murukku is a kids friendly snack with little or zero spices which is rich in butter. Monthly once it is a must snack i prepare for kids at home and also pack for school snack sometimes. This quick version doesn’t consume much time to prepare since it uses instant rice flour (store bought one). The red chili powder mentioned here is optional you can completely skip it.

Ingredients For Butter Murukku Benne Chakli Vennai Murukku
Rice Flour – 2 Cup
Butter – 3 Tbsp (Room Temperature)
Sesame Seeds – 1.5tsp
Hing/Asafoetida – 1/4tsp (Optional)
Pepper Powder – 1/2tsp (Optional)
Red Chili Powder – 1/2tsp
Pottukadalai/Dalia or Roasted Gram Flour – 1/4 Cup (powder roasted gram in mixie/processor and sieve it before adding)
Gram/Besan Flour – 1/4 Cup
Salt – As Needed
Water – 1 Cup + 3 Tbsp (Optional few tsps to attain right consistency)
Oil – To Deep Fry

Yields :- 500 gms of Murukku

How to make Butter Murukku Benne Chakli Vennai Murukku

• In a mixing bowl add rice flour.
• To that add sieved gram flour and roasted gram flour (Pic 1).
• Add the remaining ingredients listed above except oil , butter and water (Pic 2).
• Mix the ingredients well, now add soft butter and crumble the mixture (Pic 3).
• Add water in batches and while kneading the dough (Pic 4) you can sprinkle water if there is any dry flour.

• The murukku dough should be soft and pliable like chapati dough (Pic 5 & 6).
• If its very stiff then you feel hard while squeezing it out in the murukku press so adjust it with few more drops of water.
• If the dough turns watery/too moist and not holding the shape then adjust it with more rice flour.
• If it becomes too watery do add rice flour with equal proportion of pottukadalai flour and besan flour.

• Once the dough is ready add a fistful of dough (Pic 8) in the murukku press and use any design you like here i used star shaped press (Pic 7).
• Also you can make shaped murukku swrils/chakli but what i did is very easy to make snack so directly squeezed in hot oil (Pic 10) and the whole process can be finished in less than 30 minutes of time.
• Before directly squeezing it in hot oil release the pressure gently as shown in Pic 9 & in video, otherwise it splutters/splashes in hot oil.
• Once done squeezing (make enough room to cook), cook in very high temperature.
• Flip it and once it turns light golden brown in color and oil suppresses, remove it from oil (Pic 12).

• You can either break the swirls while cooking in oil (like shown in video) and Pic 11 or later it was taken out from the hot oil.
• But when you break while frying it fries faster than usual also the murukku remains crispy for longer days.
• Drain the excess oil from hot murukkus using paper towel.
• Repeat the above process till you finish all the dough.
• Once they cooled down completely, store it in air tight container.

 Notes

1. Instead of Sesame seeds you can add ajwain flour too.
2. If you like to have this murukku spicy then add 2tsp fine ground red chili powder to the dough.

Video Tutorial

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Butter Murukku Vennai Murukku Video Recipe

Prep Time

25 mins

Cook Time

25 mins

 

Learn to make Butter Murukku Using Instant Rice Flour

Course: Appetizer, Snack

Cuisine: Indian

Servings: 500 Grams

Author: Sangeetha Priya

Ingredients

• Rice Flour – 2 Cup
• Butter – 3 Tbsp Room Temperature
• Sesame Seeds – 1.5tsp
• Hing/Asafoetida – 1/4tsp Optional
• Pepper Powder – 1/2tsp Optional
• Red Chili Powder – 1/2tsp
• Pottukadalai/Dalia or Roasted Gram Flour – 1/4 Cup powder roasted gram in mixie/processor and sieve it before adding
• Gram/Besan Flour – 1/4 Cup
• Salt – As Needed
• Water – 1 Cup + 3 Tbsp Optional few tsps to attain right consistency
• Oil – To Deep Fry

Instructions

1. In a mixing bowl add rice flour.
2. To that add sieved gram flour and roasted gram flour (Pic 1).
3. Add the remaining ingredients listed above except oil , butter and water (Pic 2).
4. Mix the ingredients well, now add soft butter and crumble the mixture (Pic 3).
5. Add water in batches and while kneading the dough (Pic 4) you can sprinkle water if there is any dry flour.
6. The murukku dough should be soft and pliable like chapati dough (Pic 5 & 6).
7. If its very stiff then you feel hard while squeezing it out in the murukku press so adjust it with few more drops of water.
8. If the dough turns watery/too moist and not holding the shape then adjust it with more rice flour.
9. If it becomes too watery do add rice flour with equal proportion of pottukadalai flour and besan flour.
10. Once the dough is ready add a fistful of dough (Pic 8) in the murukku press and use any design you like here i used star shaped press (Pic 7).
11. Also you can make shaped murukku swrils/chakli but what i did is very easy to make snack so directly squeezed in hot oil (Pic 10) and the whole process can be finished in less than 30 minutes of time.
12. Before directly squeezing it in hot oil release the pressure gently as shown in Pic 9 & in video, otherwise it splutters/splashes in hot oil.
13. Once done squeezing (make enough room to cook), cook in very high temperature.
14. Flip it and once it turns light golden brown in color and oil suppresses, remove it from oil (Pic 12).
15. You can either break the swirls while cooking in oil (like shown in video) and Pic 11 or later it was taken out from the hot oil.
16. But when you break while frying it fries faster than usual also the murukku remains crispy for longer days.
17. Drain the excess oil from hot murukkus using paper towel.
18. Repeat the above process till you finish all the dough.
19. Once they cooled down completely, store it in air tight container.

Recipe Notes

Instead of Sesame seeds you can add ajwain flour too.
If you like to have this murukku spicy then add 2tsp fine ground red chili powder to the dough.