PERUGU CHAKRALU

INGREDIENTS:

Rice flour - 2 cups

Sour curd - 1 cup or more

Red chilli powder -4 tbsp

Salt - to taste

Butter - 2 tbsp

Oil - for deep frying

PREPARATION:

1. Take curd and make smooth paste without any lumps with hand.


2. Put rice flour into a bowl add red chilli powder, salt and curd. Mix by adding heated butter and make a smooth dough.


3. Heat oil in a pan, fill the muruku maker with dough and press the dough in the heated oil in a circular from a muruku.


4. Fry them on medium heat till goldren brown. Remove the muruku from heat and keep it on a paper towel.


5. Repeat same procedure with remaining batter.


6. Let it cool and store it in air tight container.

KARAPUSA

INGREDIENTS:

Besan (gram flour) - 1 cup

Rice flour - 1 cup

Red chilli powder - 3 tsp

Salt - as per your taste

Ajwain - 1 tsp

Oil - 2 tbsp

Oil - for deep frying

PREPARATION:

1. Mix gram flour, rice flour, red chilli powder, ajwain, salt and few spoonfuls of hot oil.


2. Mix all ingredients with water into the consistency that will allow the dough to pass through the muruku maker.


3. Heat oil in a pan and fill the muruku maker with dough and squeeze the dough into the hot oil.


4. Reduce the heat little and fry till goldren brown.


5. Remove from oil, and place them on a paper towel.


6. Repeat the process till all the dough is finished.


7. Let it cool down all karapusa and transfer into your storage container.

MURUKULU

INGREDIENTS:

Rice flour - 2 cups

Urad flour - 1/2 cup

Besan - 1/2 cup

Butter - 1/2 cup

Red chilli powder - 2 tsp(as per your taste)

Sesame seeds - 1 tsp

Salt - to taste

Oil - for frying

Water - 1 1/2 cup (as required)

PREPARATION:

1. Mix rice flour, urad flour, besan flour, sesame seeds, red chilli powder, salt in a big bowl.


2. Heat the butter and add it into the mixture.


3. Now add water slowly into the mixture and knead it to make soft dough.


4. Place some dough in muruku maker and pipe out the patterns, forming circle, on a greased plate.


5. Heat oil in a pan , and fry murukus carefully in the oil, without touching each other.


6. Fry till they turn light brown colour.


7. Remove the murukus and keep on a paper towel to remove excess oil.


8. Allow them to cool and store in a dry container.

DIAMOND CUTS

INGREDIENTS:

All purpose flour/Maida - 2 cups

Salt - 1 tsp

Ajwain - 1 tsp

Ghee - 1 tsp

Red chili powder - 1 tsp

Water - 1/2 cup

Oil - for deep frying

PREPARATION:

1. Mix together maida, salt, chili powder, ajwain, ghee.
2. Knead well to make a soft dough using water.
3. Make balls out off the dough and roll them into very thin and large chapatis.
4. Make cuts, using knife by drawing a number of parallel lines to cut into diamond shaped pieces.
5. Heat oil in a deep kadhai and fry these pieces, till golden brown colour.
6. Let it cool and store in a air tight container.
7. Serve with a hot cup of tea.