SOUTH INDIAN CRISPY JANTHIKALU/ MURUKULU RECIPE 2021/Masthani’s kitchen

Homemade Crispy Butter Janthikalu/ Murukulu recipe (step-by step photos) 2021/Masthani’s kitchen:

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                         Janthikalu is the king of all the snacks recipes mainly in ANDHRA STATE in India undoubtedly crispy , tasty janthikalu be the classic traditional festival snack prepared with different flours , in this blog I can share with step by step picks easily understand and make it in your home.

Murukulu recipe

                    I remember my childhood days my cousins, relatives all are gathered in my grandmother home for vacations or summer holidays without making these crunchy janthukulu treats never complete that vacations days and also nicely packed munchies are adored by Andhra.

                Jantukulu is one of the travel snack in India for travel time packing in box for road or train for keep long hours journey .If you have any one of Andhra friend make sure taste it with the help of your friend.

               Murukulu is a deep fried snack made with a rice flour, besan, dal flour , Murukulu plate within 30 min. Murukulu is mostly famous in festival time like MAKARA SANKRANTHI, varalakshmi vratham, Ganesh chaturthi , navarathri puja almost all the festivals common snack dish in south India.

Murukulu recipe

TABLE OF CONTENT:

• BENEFITS DETAILED INGREDIENTS LIST
• DIFFERENT LANGUAGES SPELL JANTHUKULU
• DERIVED STEPS
• PROCEDURE
• BEST FOR MORE RESULTS

BENEFITS DETAILED INGREDIENTS LIST:

RICE FLOUR: 

            Rice flour can provide a good amount of fiber to our body to maintain healthy and bone strong. Here for crispy of janthukulu recipe rice flour plays a main role for crispiness.

BESAN:  

         Besan is one of the best remedy to control the sugar levels in our body and also for this recipe it will gives more taste on it.

LOVAGE SEEDS (vamu): 

          Vamu helps to fight from anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties by adding this to janthukulu recipe it will helps to digest easily.

HOT WATER: 

            Hot water helps to make janthukulu dough easily and also stay as long as periods of days.

BUTTER: 

          Butter have a high rich in vitamins like A, D, E, B12, K2 helps to maintain healthy and also make a janthukulu so soft and tasty.

MURUKULU PLATE: 

             This is the plate which helps to make a janthukulu in round shape we can easily get it any store or super markets in India.

DIFFERENT LANGUAGES SPELL JANTHUKULU:

Murukulu/jantukulu-telugu

Scrap-english

Sakraipa-punjabi

Skirap-tamil

Skryapa-nepali

Kharda-arabic

Bhangara-gujarati

Raddee maal-hindi

Skryap-kannada

Skrepa-marathi

Skrap-malayalam

DERVIED INGRENDITS:

Rice flour

Besan/urad dal flour

Lovage seeds

Butter/hot oil

Red chili

Salt (as per taste)

Pinch of turmeric

Murukulu plate

Cooking oil

DERIVED STEPS:

Making dough:

Step 1: Take a 3 cups of fresh rice flour in a bowl.

Rice flour

Step 2: Add 1 cup of besan flour on it, Look at the quantity of flour we have to mix it take more rice flour and less besan to get a more crispy recipe.

Besan

Step 3: Pour handful of lovage seeds (vamu) on it.

Vamu

Step 4: Pour salt, pinch of turmeric and red chili powder (as per taste) for this recipe I like to add more spiciness to get perfect taste.

Spices

Step 5: Now pour hot oil /butter to get soft ness and it will stay more days.

Butter/hot oil

Step 6: Pour hot water on it to make a dough.

Hot water

Step 7: Mix the all the flour with the help of hands make a soft dough .it should not be loose dough if it happened make sure add some rice flour on it.

Dough

Murukulu plate:

Step 8: Here I took the Murukulu plate as shown in the figure the holes are not too small or not too large it must be medium size then we can get a perfect shape of Murukulu.

Murukulu plate

Step 9: Take a handful of janthukulu dough and slowly placed in Murukulu plate not fully covered and keep the another plate then the dough must come out when we pressed both of plates.

Placing dough

Cooking Murukulu:

Step 10: Take a pan add cooking oil on it cook it for a while.

Cooking oil

Step 11: Slowly placed the Murukulu plate on the oil make a move of your hand in circular motion.

Placing murukulu

Step 12: After sometime stir with spoon cook it both sides of Murukulu until it turns into golden-brown color.

Golden-brown color

Step 13: At last serve them in a plate and enjoy the each byte of crunchy , tasty Murukulu/janthukulu recipe snack.

Murukulu recipe

REQUIRED TIME:

Prep time	10 min
Cooked time	20 Min
Total time	30 min
cuisine	Andhra, India
Makes	8 servings
type	Easy

 PROCEDURE:

Making dough:

• 1.    Take a 3 cups of fresh rice flour in a bowl.
• 2.     Add 1 cup of besan flour on it, Look at the quantity of flour we have to mix it take more rice flour and less besan to get a more crispy recipe.
• 3.     Pour handful of lovage seeds (vamu) on it.
• 4.     Pour salt, pinch of turmeric and red chili powder (as per taste) for this recipe I like to add more spiciness to get perfect taste.
• 5.     Now pour hot oil /butter to get soft ness and it will stay more days.
• 6.     Pour hot water on it to make a dough.
• 7.     Mix the all the flour with the help of hands make a soft dough .it should not be loose dough if it happened make sure add some rice flour on it.

Murukulu plate:

• 1.     Here I took the Murukulu plate as shown in the figure the holes are not too small or not too large it must be medium size then we can get a perfect shape of Murukulu.
• 2.     Take a handful of janthukulu dough and slowly placed in Murukulu plate
• 3.     Not fully covered and keep the another murukulu plate then the dough must come out when we pressed both of plates.

Cooking Murukulu:

• 1.     Take a pan add cooking oil on it cook it for a while.
• 2.     Slowly placed the Murukulu plate on the oil make a move of your hand in circular motion.
• 3.     After sometime stir with spoon cook it both sides of Murukulu until it turns into golden-brown color.
• 4.     At last serve them in a plate and enjoy the each byte of crunchy , tasty Murukulu/janthukulu recipe snack.

BEST FOR MORE RESULTS:

Instead of rice flour we can ad urad dal cook it for a while later blend it until to get a fine powder

You can add sesame seeds after adding lovage seeds on it to get more taste.

Adding hot water instead of normal water the dough get soft and stay long days.

Cooking oil must cook for while later only add the dough on it otherwise the oil is oozed out in janthukulu .

Maintain medium-low flame only if you maintain high flame the dough is not cook properly and also very hard to eat.

We can add kashmiri chili powder instead of red chili powder its gives good color to snack.

Place them in the air tight container box we can taste them more than a month as a same taste.

Nutrition facts (estimation only):

(8 servings per container ,Serving size (1g) ,Calories -135, total fat-7g, saturated fat-1g, transfat-0g, cholesterol-56mg, sodium -98mg, total carbohydrates-9g, sugar-2g, proteins -22g)

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