Potato murukku recipe

Potato murukku recipe with step by step photos. Easy and tasty for Diwali snack. Rice flour, potato as main ingredient and no urad dal flour needed.

📝 Ingredients

• 2 cups Rice flour (I used idiyappam flour)
• 1/8 tsp Asafoetida
• 1 & 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
• Salt
• Oil (for deep frying)
• 1 Potato (small sized, boiled and peeled)
• 2 tbsp Butter (Measured melted)
• 1/4 cup water (or as needed)

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Cook potato, cool down, remove the skin and grind with softened butter and water to a smooth paste. l.
2. 2Mix to the rice flour, asafoetida, cumin and salt wel
3. 3Add the ground paste and required water, so that you get a non sticky dough. Keep covered at all the times.
4. 4I used the murukku press with the plate with three round hole as shown in the picture. You can try the star hole plate too.
5. 5I usually grease 3-4 broad ladles and press the murukku in the laddles and just drop the made murukkus in the hot oil.
6. 6This method is good for two reasons…One is to avoid the heat not to affect your hands when you press directly in oil and the second is to make (hold) good shapes of the murukku.
7. 7Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan,in between press 3-4 murukkus in the greased broad ladles as shown in the above picture.
8. 8When the oil is hot enough (if u add a pinch of dough it should rise immediately-do not let the oil fume at any point),drop the murukku one by one carefully. Put the fire in medium.
9. 9After the bubbles reduces(a minute or so) turn the murukkus.
10. 10Cook both sides till the bubbles and the cooking sound ceases.
11. 11Drain the murukkus in kitchen towels.