Ragi butter murukku| Finger millet murukku, crispy murukku using ragi| finger millet flour, perfect for Deepavali. I have tried savory recipes using ragi flour. Though they turn out crispy, somehow I feel the slightly bitter taste after tasting the murukku. Even I have tried murukku using millet flour like samai, thinai, and varagu. I have never tried the traditional way of making flour, using store-bought flour only. Today I tried Ragi butter murukku by adding some rice flour to it. It was very crunchy and bitter taste was not there in this murukku. I don’t say it is a healthy version of murukku, as we add millet flour to this, but I am sure, it is definitely a different version to try out for this Deepavali.
Check out my video for Butter murukku recipe.
Ragi Butter murukku
Ingredients
- ½ cup Ragi flour| Finger millet flour
- ½ cup Rice flour
- ½ cup Besan | kadalai maavu
- ¼ cup Pottu kadalai | roasted gram
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds
- Salt as needed
- 2 tbsp Butter
- Oil for deep frying
- Asafoetida a generous pinch
Instructions
- Grind the pottukadalai into a fine powder. Pottukadalai is a roasted gram, we use for making coconut chutney.
- No need to roast the pottukadalai.
- In a wide bowl add the rice flour, ragi flour, besan flour, and pottukadalai flour.
- Add the cumin seeds, salt, and asafoetida.
- Add melted butter to this.
- Mix well and add water little by little and make a soft crack-free dough.
- I used the single-star achu.
- Put a portion of the dough into the murukku press.
- Heat the oil and once it becomes hot, bring the flame to medium.
- Just squeeze it into the oil.
- If you want to make it as mullu murukku, squeeze it in that way.
- Generally, butter murukku in stores will be in single sticks only.
- For ragi murukku you can't make out whether it is done or not by looking at the color.
- Once the oil sound subsides and the bubbles lessen, take it out from the oil.
- Drain the excess oil in the kitchen towel.
- Repeat this for the rest of the dough.
- If made in bulk, mix the dough in batches, else it will give a sour taste.
- Murukku stays good for 10 days to 2 weeks if kept in an airtight container.
Notes
Method with step-wise pictures :
- Grind the pottukadalai into a fine powder. Pottukadalai is a roasted gram, we use for making coconut chutney.
- No need to roast the pottukadalai.
- In a wide bowl add the rice flour, ragi flour, besan flour, and pottukadalai flour.
- Add the cumin seeds, salt, and asafoetida.
- Add melted butter to this.
- Mix well and add water little by little and make a soft crack-free dough.
- I used the single star achu.
- Put a portion of the dough into the murukku press.
- Heat the oil and once it becomes hot, bring the flame to medium.
- Just squeeze it into the oil.
- If you want to make it as mullu murukku, squeeze it in that way.
- Generally butter murukku in stores will be in single sticks only.
- For ragi murukku you can’t make out whether it is done or not by looking at the color.
- Once the oil sound subsides and the bubbles lessen, take it out from the oil.
- Drain the excess oil in the kitchen towel.
- Repeat this for the rest of the dough.
- If making in bulk, mix the dough in batches, else it will give a sour taste.
- Murukku stays good for 10 days to 2 weeks if kept in an air-tight container.
Notes:- Always use melted butter, hard butter will not mix evenly.
- The murukku was super crunchy with the addition of rice flour.
- If you want to skip the rice flour you can skip too.
- You can add sesame seeds instead of cumin seeds for Ragi Butter Murukku.
Coffee oda munching this now Jey.
Can we use sprouted ragi flour ma’am?
Yes for sure