
My mom is an expert in making this and our family's all time favourite of hers is manakkombu.
INGREDIENTS:
Raw rice - 4 cups
Moong dhal - 1 cup
Butter - 100 gms.
Cumin seeds - 2 tsp.
Hing
Salt - as per taste
Oil - for deep frying
METHOD:
Pound together rice and moong dal in a flour mill to a fine powder.
Mix all the ingredients without water (except oil). Keep aside.
Take out a small portion, add little water and knead it to a medium-soft dough.
Heat oil in a kadai. Make balls out of the dough and place it in a three starred achu (what we call as mullu thenkuzhal achu) and press it firmly in a circular motion , directly into the oil. Flip on both sides till hissing and bubbling sound from the oil reduces.

Ensure medium heat of oil.
Take out only little portions of the mixed flour and knead with water as and when required. By doing like this, it will get a beautiful colour. This applies to all the bakshanams.
Shanthi mam, the murukku looks absolutely marvellous...No words to praise... Super. I feel like taking it out of the system. Beautiful color,texture and shape.
ReplyDeleteFeel frustrated to hear about such people who easily copy images/recipes :(
Shanthi ma..ur murukku looks great...so crispy..do vist mine when u got time..do sign in as follower too.
ReplyDeleteAs for the shameful act-it's happening everywhere now. I don't understand how some can be so low to copy one's hard work..don't worry
Hi Shanthi the murukku looks so crunchy and perfect.It's an art I am yet to master.
ReplyDeleteI hate these people who can easily copy and produce some one's work as their's.
Murukku looks lovely.. Wish I can take some from the screen!
ReplyDeleteReally sorry about your experience! It is so disgusting! And I think there could be no worse theft than stealing someone's art and talent!
Don't worry Shanthiji, we stand by you! Pls let us know if we all can do something about this.
Hi Ma'am Nice murukku. This is very stupid that they dont even ask and copy stuff from the blog. Hope you get the reply soon.
ReplyDeleteNice murukku,crispy.....
ReplyDeletedelicious murukku......that's really a shameful act...action must be taken against persons stealing others effort.......
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting Collaborative Curry and leading me to your wonderful space :-) Crisp and yumm murukku..
ReplyDeleteThat's so frustrating..shame on them
Hi Shanti,
ReplyDeleteLovely and crispy murukku. Going to try tomorrow for diwali!
The same thing happened with me last week, some one has copied my sentences in to their posting.(Even though, it is only language, copy is copy!!! right?)
Murukku very mouthwatering...Wanted to grab from screen itself...
ReplyDeletethe muruku looks crunchy and yummy.
ReplyDeletei strictly condemn the ppl who use our hardwork for their business purpose..
ReplyDeleteShanthi... lovely murukku... my grandma also makes this the same way...
ReplyDeleteWe call "Makizhampoo" as it resembles that flower :)
ReplyDeleteAnd I am shocked by the act of the magazine,don't know who's fault is this,whether the magazine or the person who sent the recipes,keep writing to the magazine,atleast they should apolagize!!
manugombu super!! internet image copying! even mangayar malar huh... very sad!
ReplyDeleteYummy murukku dear.. going to the bad act, shocked da.. The person who did this should atleast apologise for this act..! Now-a-days plagiarism has increased, something has to be done to stop this..!
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteI read your post and will try it soon. However I was not able to interpret the sentence
"Level 1 cup with raw rice and heap with moong dhal." clearly.
Do you mean for 1 level cup of raw rice I need to add 1 heap cup of moong dal?
Or did you mean it the other way... If you could please clarify this I will try it soon. Thanks
Kala,Take a cup, fill it with rice, level it, then for the heap portion, add moong dhal. Are you clear now?
ReplyDeleteShanthi Maami,
ReplyDeleteMurukku looks awesome! Love it!
As for the shameful act, I think Mangayar Malar should publish your picture in the next edition and mention that the recipe was yours and that it was copied over by Aparna. I think people think that no one reads blogs and they can get away with anything.
And Aparna - I'm sure you will be back here reading the comments - Just want to let you know that what you have done is wrong. In case you want to use anything from anybody's blog - Please ask first. You owe Shanthi Maami one.
Murukku looks delicious Shanthi... perfect in sahpe and looks crisp.
ReplyDeleteReally sorry to hear about the shameful act ... definitely you need an apology.
I prepared Manakombu as Per this recipe for this Deepavali.
ReplyDeleteIt has turned out nice.taste colour and crispness every thing was
very amasing.
It looks awesome... Since I am a beginner, I want to know the measure of one cup (quantity of one cup), so that it will be easy to add butter and other ingredients accordingly
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