Palak murukku
Palak murukku is a simple easy snack made with Indian spinach,rice flour and chickpea flour (Besan) as main ingredient. With step by step pictures.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Rice flour
- ¼ cup Besan/ gram flour
- ¾ cup Spinach
- 2 Green chilli
- 2 teaspoon Butter
- ½ teaspoon Ajwain/ Omam
- 1 generous pinch Asafoetida
- Salt – as needed
Instructions
- First remove the thick vine in the spinach, chop roughly and measure ¾ cup.
- Grind it with green chilli, little water to a smooth paste.
- Take rice flour, besan, butter, ajwain, asafoetida and salt in a mixing bowl, add. Mix well.
- Add the ground puree and add required water to make a smooth dough without cracks.
- Fill murukku press with prepared dough. I used the star shaped hole plate.
- Squeeze into murukkus in a greased plate. I did mini version. But you can do regular chakli as well. Invert the plate into hot oil heated in a kadai. Be gentle when you invert, careful to not get any hot oil splash.
- Cook in medium flame until the sound reduces and flip to cook in low flame until the bubbles reduce completely without changing it’s colour.
- Drain in paper towels. Repeat to finish the dough.
Video
Notes
- Since I make mini murukku, I greased a plate and did over it, inverted into the oil. It was pretty easy to do.
- While dropping the murukku in oil, it should be hot. Cook in medium and low flames to get crispy result without changing the colour of the chakli.
- If you do not have patience to cook in medium and low heat, then the colour might not be green.
- Also if you do not cook properly, the murukku will be soft inside and later become too hard to bite. Cook thoroughly to get crispy texture.