Thursday, March 3, 2011

Easy Arisi Murukku




Arisi murukku
Arisi Murukku


Level: Medium
Cooking Time: 30 min
Serves: 3 dozen small sized muruku

Ingredients
Rice flour: 1.5 cups
Salt: 1.5 tsp
Fried gram (Odacha kadala): 1 tablespoon
Cumin seeds(Jeera)/Ajwain(omam): 1 tsp
Butter: 1 table spoon
Water: 3/4 cup (Approx)

Procedure:
Step 1:
Powder the fried gram to a fine powder in a mixie and sieve it.

Step2:
Mix all the ingredients to gether and knead it to a thick dough using water



Step3:
In a wax paper/aliminium foil make the muruku using muruku maker

Step 4:
Deep fry the murukku in oil

Notes:
Fry only in medium flame
Sift the powdered fried gram.Do not skip this step.Otherwise the muruku might burst
The dough should not be too thick.Otherwise while pressing the muruku, it will not come evenly

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Coconut Biscuit

Level: Easy
Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 20 min
Serves: 25 biscuits
Eggless Coconut Cookies

Ingredients
All purpose flour/maida - 1 cup
Unsalted butter - 1 stick
Baking powder - 1/4 tsp
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Rava/Suji (fine variety) - 1/4 cup
Sweeted dessicated coconut - 1 cup
Cardomom - 5 crushed

Procedure:
Step 1:
Slightly toast the cococnut for 2 minutes

Step2:
Mix butter and sugar and beat it to a smooth paste

Step3:
Add flour, rava,coconut,crushed cardomamom, baking powder and mix well.

Step4:
Knead the dough with hand for 4-5 minutes such that it resembles chappathi dough

Step5:
Cover it with a plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes

Step6:
Preheat the oven to 325 F

Step7:
Make small balls and press them on a cookie sheet(makes around 25 balls). keep them 1 " apart

Step8:
Bake in the oven for 20 minutes (Until the sides become golden brown)

Step9:
Cool it on a wire rack for 5 minutes and serve