Ingredients:

• 1 cup – raw Rice
• 1 cup – rolled oats
• 1/2 cup – Jaggery
• 1/4 cup – grated Coconut
• 1 – Banana
• 1/4 tsp – Cardamom powder
• 1/4 tsp – bicarbonate of soda
• For frying – oil
• Ingredients:
• 2 cups – Rice flour
• 1/2 cup – roasted split gram dhal / pottukadalai
• 1/2 cup – rolled oats
• 1/4 cup – roasted urad dhal
• 1 tsp – Butter
• 1 tbsp – sesame seeds
• 1/2 tbsp – Nigella seeds
• 1 cup – Coconut Milk
• Salt – to taste
• Oil – for deep frying

Method:

1. Powder roasted gram dhal, rolled oats and urad dhal separately, into a fine powder.
2. Sieve the urad dhal powder, to make it fine.
3. Heat the coconut milk and butter just under a boiling point.
4. Mix all the powder, rice flour, salt and seeds in a large bowl.
5. Add the heated coconut milk, mix together to make a smooth dough.
6. Put a ball of dough into the murukku press and press as murukkus in a greased plate or aluminium foil.
7. Heat oil in a pan.
8. Put the murukkus one by one at a time in the hot oil.
9. Cook on both sides, until the oil stops bubbling.
10. Take it out from the oil.
11. Store the murukkus in an air tight container.
12. Recipe courtesy: Taste of Pearl City

Recipe courtesy of Ayeesha Riaz