Recipe Notes

We need to boil the grams first

To a cooker, add 1/2 cup black gram and 1/2 cup green gram

You could use 1 cup of black gram completely if you want to skip green gram

Cook for 3-4 whistles

Open the lid and mash the boiled gram

To a mixing bowl, add 4 cups rice flour, 2 teaspoons chilli powder, 1 1/2 teaspoon salt or salt to taste, 4 teaspoons sesame seeds, 1 teaspoon cumin seeds, 1/2 teaspoon ajowan and mix

Add 1 1/2 tablespoon heated oil

Add the mashed grams to the mix and knead it into a dough

Add water and knead it into a dough

Place the dough in the snack shaper and press it into desired shape on the back of a plate or spoon

Heat oil for deep fry

Fry them one by one and cook on medium flame

Flip and fry till they turn golden brown

Serve!

Murukku is typically made from rice flour and urad dal flour. It is sometimes called "chakli" chakli is a similar dish, typically made with an additional ingredient, bengal gram (chickpea) flour.