Nilakadalai murukku | Peanut chakli-How to make-Step by step photos

Cuisine Style: Tamil Nadu, South India | Preparation & Cooking Time: 15 minutes | To Serve: 2 | Take with: Curd rice, tea, coffee | Type: Easy diwali & pongal snacks or crisps

Ingredients

• Peanut[Groundnut, Nilakadalai]- 1/4 cup
• Garlic –4 cloves
• Dry red chilli – 2
• Rice flour -1/2 cup
• Gram flour - 1/4 cup
• Red chilli powder- 1 tbsp
• Turmeric powder- 1 tsp
• Cumin seeds- 1 tbsp
• Ghee - 1 tbsp
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Oil for deep frying
• Salt to taste
• Water as needed

Preparation Method

• Dry roast peanut, let ti cool. Then peel off the skin.
• In a mixie jar add, roasted peanut, dry red chilli, cumin seeds, & garlic grind to fine paste.
  
• In a bowl add gram flour, rice flour, asafetida, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, cumin, groundnut paste, salt, & ghee mix well.
• Then add water mix well, knead it & make soft dough [It should be soft & non sticky].
• Add 1 tbsp oil over the dough, keep it aside.
• Heat enough oil in a pan, take murukku mould plate then place it in a muruku kuzhal.
• Fill the prepared dough in a muruku kuzhal [one handful] & just press out or squeeze over the ladle & deep fry till crisp on medium hot oil.
• Flip over & fry another side.
• Once it ready or the oil sound disappears then take it out & drain on absorbent paper.
• Leave it for room temperature [Apr. 2 min]. Then store in an airtight container
  

How to make Peanut murukku-Stepwise pictures

Dry roast peanuts

Peel off the skin

In a mixie jar, add roasted peanuts, cumin seeds, garlic, dry red chilli grind to fine paste

Ground peanut paste ready

In a bowl add rice flour, gram flour

Add red chilli powder, turmeric powder & 1 tbsp oil

Add asafoetida

Add salt

Add ghee, mix well

Add ground paste, mix well, make soft dough

Peanut murukku dough ready

Fill murukku kuzhal with peanut murukku dough

Check, if its too hard add water make smooth dough

Squeeze over the ladle

Heat oil, drop it

Deepfry till crisp

Now its ready, remove it from oil

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