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    Poondu murukku, garlic murukku recipe, mini murukku

    October 22, 2018 by Raks Anand 4 Comments / Jump to Recipe

    Poondu murukku, garlic murukku is a flavourful twist to the regular murukku you prepare. I have made this as tiny mini murukku. It turns out flavourful, super crispy.

    poondu murukku
    Garlic murukku

    Garlic murukku is a great snack when you are craving for something to much on with tea/ coffee.

    You can also prepare this During Deepavali and gift it for your loved ones. Browse my other Diwali recipes in the index and check out my 100 plus Diwali recipes collection post.

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    Whenever my in-laws visit kumbakonam, they make sure to buy sweets and snacks apart from coffee powder and other stuffs.

    Though we too make a short stay at Kumbakonam every year when we make our yearly temple visit, somehow it will be hectic and my father in law alone goes and grabs few sweets and snacks last minute.

    My mom in law says they usually buy a poondu murukku that is so flavourful and it is sold only in a particular shop.

    Mama buys similar murukku, which is plain flavour and white in colour. I could clearly feel it is just rice flour murukku. But as mami and co-sis raves about the garlic murukku I get tempted a lot.

    This time, when Vj went for an official trip to India, he visited Chennai and my mami passed the tiny plain murukku through him.

    I was telling my mami over phone that I wanted to prepare the same way as it is. Actually last year itself I did attempted to make tiny murukku but ended up in making regular ones😄.

    When I told her, she asked me to try again, which I already had decided.

    Mini Murukku

    In my murukku press, I have this plate which is slightly thicker than the sev/ idiyappam hole, but thinner than the regular murukku holes.

    Last year also I attempted with the same. So I was thinking to customize the same plate, by blocking the holes and having fewer holes.

    My mom in law uses comparatively smaller murukku achu (murukku press) usually.

    I have tried the same dough in two different murukku achu with larger hole plate and comparatively smaller holed plate.

    The murukku made thinner are super crisp, pale in colour too when compared to the thicker murukku.

    Now a days I too follow the same as much as possible. Thin murukku➡Crispy, lighter colour murukku.

    One thing I noticed was for garlic murukku, we should not add ajwain or cumin seeds and let the garlic flavour dominate the murukku.

    I added ajwain and thought I should not have added it. So do try without ajwain.

    I have used rice flour as main ingredient, with urad dal flour in it. You can use my pottukadalai murukku recipe too and adapt the same method to prepare garlic murukku.

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    Poondu murukku, garlic murukku

    Poondu murukku, garlic murukku is a flavourful twist to the regular murukku you prepare. I have made this as tiny mini murukku. It turns out flavourful, super crispy.
    Course Snack
    Cuisine Indian
    Prep Time 20 minutes
    Cook Time 35 minutes
    Servings 35
    Cup measurements

    Ingredients

    • 5 Garlic flakes/ cloves
    • 1 cup Rice flour
    • 2 tablespoon Urad dal flour
    • 1 teaspoon Red chilli powder
    • Β½ teaspoon Ajwain optional/ Skip for more garlic flavour
    • 1 tablespoon Butter melted
    • Salt - As needed
    • Oil to deep fry
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    Instructions

    • To make urad dal flour, roast white urad dal in medium flame until golden in colour.
    • Cool down and powder in mixie. Sieve it and store to use in recipes.
    • First grind the garlic flakes in a mixie. You can add salt too and grind so that it gets ground well.
    • Later add some water and grind again so that it gets ground well.
    • In a mixing bowl, add rice flour, urad dal flour, red chilli powder, salt, butter (ajwain if adding) and mix well.
    • Add ground garlic, water little by little as needed and make a smooth dough without cracks.
    • Take a murukku press with smaller holed plate. *Refer notes* Fill the press with prepared dough.
    • Heat oil in kadai. While oil is heated, grease some flat spatulas with oil.
    • Squeeze the murukku over spatulas, holding in a good height so that you have control over the shape.
    • Squeeze multiple murukku enough for one batch and once oil is hot, add the squeezed murukku in oil.
    • Cook both sides in medium flame until bubbles and sound reduces completely. Drain over paper towel.

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    Notes

    • I cut out an aluminum foil same as the murukku press plate. Trimmed the edges. Again layered aluminum foil and layer both. I used the second aluminium foil to secure around the plate. Then poked hole in the aluminium foil (along the hole in the murukku press plate)Β  just in the middle.
    • Since I made mini murukku, I squeezed 2-3 per spatula so that I could fry maximum per batch.
    • Use finest rice flour for best results. I used idiyappam flour. It gives crispier result. If the flour is too coarse, the murukku breaks, either while squeezing or in oil/ after frying.
    • Do not add more butter than mentioned as it will make the murukku dissolve in oil. Oil should be hot enough so that murukku sizzles as soon as you add to oil.
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    Step by step preparation of poondu murukku:

    1. To make urad dal flour, roast white urad dal in medium flame until golden in colour. Cool down and powder in mixie. Sieve it and store to use in recipes.
    2. First grind the garlic flakes in a mixie. You can add salt too and grind so that it gets ground well. Later add some water and grind again so that it gets ground well.
      poondu-murukku-step1poondu-murukku-step1a
    3. In a mixing bowl, add rice flour, urad dal flour, red chilli powder, salt, butter (ajwain if adding)and mix well.
      poondu-murukku-step2
    4. Add ground garlic, water little by little as needed and make a smooth dough without cracks.
      poondumrukku-step3
    5. Take a murukku press with smaller holed plate. I cut out an aluminum foil same as the murukku press plate. Trimmed the edges. Again layered aluminum foil and layer both. I used the second aluminium foil to secure around the plate. Then poked hole in the aluminium foil (along the hole in the murukku press plate)Β  just in the middle. Make sure that the securing foil by folding it, is not too thick, that is to not roll and seal. Otherwise it will leak because of the gap when you fit to the press.
      poondu-murukku-step4
      poondu-murukku-step4a
    6. Fill the press with prepared dough. Heat oil in kadai. While oil is heated, grease some flat spatulas with oil. Squeeze the murukku over spatulas, holding in a good height so that you have control over the shape.
      poondu-murukku-step5
    7. Squeeze multiple murukku enough for one batch and once oil is hot, add the squeezed murukku in oil. Cook both sides in medium flame until bubbles and sound reduces completely. Drain over paper towel.
      poondumurukku-6

    Cool down completely and store in airtight containers to enjoy as tea time snack.

    garlic murukku recipe

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    Comments

    1. Harshal

      May 31, 2019 at 9:33 pm

      Hi. Nice murukku.. Am from kumbakonam, but hv never heard about this garlic murukku. Can u let me know the place so tat I can ask my parents to buy.

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        June 19, 2019 at 8:42 pm

        You can try Kumbakonam Murari πŸ™‚

        Reply
    2. Sudharsana

      November 06, 2020 at 4:24 pm

      5 stars
      Tried this yesterday and came out really good. excellent consistency and almost no oil. Only thing was that, the garlic flavor was very less..! thanks for the recipe. I have tried many of your recipes and always turns out very good.

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        November 06, 2020 at 11:24 pm

        Thanks for your feedback πŸ™‚ You can skip omam to get more garlic's flavour. It gets better next day too. If you want more pungent flavour, use garlic powder, it smells really good.

        Reply

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