1. Wash and soak parboiled rice for 3hours.
2. Drain water and transfer it to the wet grinder.
3. In a mixer jar take garlic and red chillies and garlic and grind it to a paste.
4. Add this paste to the rice and grind it to a thick and smooth batter.
5. Transfer the batter to a bowl.
6. Add crushed black pepper, salt, besan and melted butter.
7. Knead everything together to form soft dough.
8. If the dough is hard, then pressing chevu into oil will be tough. So let it be soft.
9. Heat oil in a pan.
10. Pinch a portion of dough and fill the murukku press.
11. Press out the dough in spiral formation into the hot oil.
12. Flip the chevu when one side is done.
13. Remove chevu when the sizzling of oil stops. Repeat with the remaining dough.
14. When cool, break I into small pieces and store in an air tight jar.
Chevu / Savoury Murukku
Chevu is a besan based savoury snack which is a favourite among our family. DH buys chevu whenever he visits the nearby store. For the last few weeks the store hasn’t got the brand of chevu he likes. So he has been asking me to prepare it at home. I was just postponing the preparation because I wanted to make it for Deepavali. Then I called up my mom and asked for the recipe last week. My mom prepares the tastiest chevu. But she is not very good at giving exact measurements. But as I wanted measurements, she gave me the measurements in Padi (a type of cup measurement used in Tamil Nadu). I then converted it to the basic cup measurements and prepared it. I did little changes for DH. Mom never added pepper but he is a fan of pepper in chevu. I also added butter for extra crispness. The result was fabulous. We loved it so much. Today is the second day of Blogging Marathon#22. I am also linking this to WTML hosted by Preethi and started by me.
Ingredients:
Parboiled Rice-2 3/4cup / 500gm
Besan-4 cups / 500gm
Salt-to taste
Garlic-25-30pods
Red Chilly- 30 or according to your taste
Butter-5tbs
Oil-To Deep Fry
Black Pepper-3tbs
Procedure:
Wash and soak rice
Grind garlic and red chillies
Add it to rice and grind it in wet grinder.
Transfer the thick batter to a bowl.
Add the other ingredients
Press out in form of murukku directly into the oil.
Remove when the sizzling stops
Break into small pieces when cool.
This is on my to-do list for a long time. Yours look nice. Must try this sometime later…
So yum!..would love to munch on these Gayathri..
crunchy sev.
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The chev looks too goog and you have explained it very well.
quite an effort but ur pictures make it look just so simple and easy to follow., great job
Nice n crispy muruku
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looks seriously tempting and inviting.
Wish i get some to munch rite now, love the flavour of garlic in murukkus..
want to grab it with the coffee (cute pic) from right here… love this crunchy and crispy snack!!!
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We call this one as Kara sev and even I’ve made this one for Diwali. They look awesome.
looks so yummy – I want a handful now
Murukkus look crunchy and delicious. Interesting preparation too.
NIce and crunchy muruku