Rice Murukku - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups boiled rice
4 cups water
3/4 cup Urad Dal
salt
3/4 cup butter
oil (to deep fry)

Preparation

Soak the rice in water for 2 hours.
Fry the dal in a pan without adding oil till brownish in colour.
Make a fine powder out of it.
Grind the rice to a fine paste without adding much water.
(The rice paste should be thick).
In a bowl, add the rice paste, 3 1/2 tsps.
of Urad dal powder, salt and butter and knead well with your hand.
In a clean muslin cloth, keep the mixed rice paste and cover well so that it does not dry up.
Take a lemon sized ball and roll it into a circle by twisting the rice paste simultaneously in the cloth.
About 2-3 concentric circles can be made in a single murukku.
Make about 10-12 at a time before deep frying.
Heat the oil well in a pan.
Add about 5 murukkus at a time and deep fry.
The fried murukkus should be golden in colour.
Store in airtight containers for about a month.
The size of a murukku can go up to 7 concentric circles about 20cm in diameter.