I got this thattai and thool murukku recipes from a Tamil magazine. I actually wanted to make small ones like nippattu which I had in my school days.. But I couldn’t make even sized ones as I am bad in making shapes ;) To make even shapes, you can try cutting with small round shaped moulds. It was crispy & tasty..I gave some to my neighbor and the next day she asked the recipe ..She told it was too good and her sons liked it very much. I was very happy because this is the first complement I am getting from a person other than my husband:)
Ok ,coming to the ingredients required:
Ingredients for thattai
- Processed Rice flour - 2 cups Or Idiyappam flour
- Roasted & ground urad dal flour OR Fried gram dal powder/ Pottukadalai powder – 2 tbsp
- Fried gram dal/Pottukadalai – 2 tbsp
- Hot Cooking oil /Butter – 2 tbsp
- Pepper powder OR Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
- Salt & water – as needed.
- Chopped curry leaves – a few
- Oil – for deep frying..
- Take a wide mouthed bowl and Mix all the items with little water & required salt to make a dough ..
- Take a polythene sheet greased with oil.Make small balls with the dough.
- Pat it to make a round shaped thattu vadai on the sheet...(Its better to use a round shaped mould for proper size & shape ).
- Heat Oil in a wok and deep fry on both the sides in medium flame till hiss sound ceases...
- Store in an air tight container and enjoy munching !!
Note
Instead of adding fried gram dal , u can also use 1 hour soaked chana dal..
U can also prick the thatti using a fork before frying to ensure proper cooking.
THOOL MURUKKU
Ingredients:- Processed Rice flour OR Idiyappam flour – 1 cup
- Dry roast & Ground Urad dal powder – 2 tbsp
- Butter / Hot cooking oil – 1 tbsp
- Omam / Ajwain OR Black sesame seeds – 1 tsp
- Salt & Water – as needed
- Mix everything in a bowl with required water &salt to make a dough.
- Take the dough in the murukku maker with single star mould in it and press in the hot oil .
- Deep fry on both the sides and store it in an air-tight container.