Traditional chettinad gluten free snack Seepu Muruku made with rice and lentil flour it is delicious very good with coffee or tea.
I am feeling too lazy this week after the mega cooking for our festival Onam during this weekend. We survived with left over curries on Monday. I tried this Seepu Murukku during Krishna Jayanthi, but was not able to blog this at that time.
This Seepu Murukku /Seepu seedai is traditional Chettinad cuisine’s specialty. Chettinad is an area situated in the South-Eastern region of Tamil Nadu. Karaikudi and Devakottai are major towns of Sivaganga district of Chettinad area. Chettinad is also the homeland of the Nattukottai Chettiars (Nagarathar), a prosperous banking and business community. Chettinad is famous for its cuisine, palatial bungalows and temples if you want read more from here.
Chettinad cuisine is one of the spiciest and aromatic among Indian cooking. It is really pungent, tangy and hot and the major highlights is the freshly ground masala. They use unique spice mix read from this post.
Not only are they known for spicy cuisine, they are also known more making snacks and sweets. Some of the popular Chettinad snacks and sweets dishes are Kandarappam, Ukkarai, Pal Paniyaram, Thenkuzhal, Karupatti Paniyaram, Kavanarisi, and Seepu Seedai etc.
This Seepu Murukku /Seepu seedai is one of snacks that nowadays you can get in stores.
I remember dad used to buy occasionally buy it from stores. Since I have vague memories of taste I decide to try it in my kitchen.
Traditional Seepu Murukku is made with rice flour, mung beans powder and urad dal powder, salt and coconut milk. Everything is mixed together to form a soft smooth dough and then pressed it into thin strips using a mold.
Later 2 inch strips are joined together to form a ring using finger. When I describe the process it sounds tedious, trust me it is really easy. I used store bought rice flour. Only roasted and powdered urad dal and mung beans. Once you made few of rings, fry them in the medium oil. Fry until it is golden brown color.
It is really delicious, rice and mung bean, urad dal powder gives crispiness and coconut milk gives subtle taste. Only thing make sure that you need a mold to make this other you can with the help of new comb like here.
Give seepu murukku a try great snack for your evening tea
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Seepu Murukku
Ingredients
- 2 cup rice flour I used store bought
- ¼ cup urad dal spilt black gram flour( roasted and powdered)
- ¼ cup mung beans pasiparippu/cheruparippu (roasted and powdered)
- 1 teaspoon salt or to taste
- 1 ½ cup coconut milk diluted ¾ cup coconut milk+¾cup water
- Canola oil for frying
Instructions
- First roast and powder the urad dal and mung beans in coffee grinder,
- sieve one time to remove the big particles, and powder it once again.
- Heat coconut milk with salt until it reaches just warm.switch off and set aside to cool.
- In a bowl add rice flour, urad dal flour, mung beans powder,and mix well
- then gradually add coconut milk to form a very smooth dough.
- Using the seepu murukku mold
- make long strips of dough first then cut it into 2 inch pieces.
- Join each pieces into a ring using fingers, set aside until you make few.
- Heat oil in a thick bottomed pan until it reaches 350F then fry these seepu murukku until it become golden brown color.
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This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
V says
Hi Swathi! This is V, from Chilli Loves Malli. I'm a huge fan of murukku. I've never seen it done in this shape. I've only ever seen the spiral version. I feel like yours would be even more addictive as you can pop in these bite size morsels all day long! Sounds like a delicious snack. Happy Onam!
Anupa says
I had never heard of such a snack before...good to know it now.. It looks amazing...crisp and fried to perfection...would be so great to munch during tea time
techie2mom says
Wow, you do so much work!! this looks perfectly made..
Gloria says
looks crispy and addictive....would love to munch
sathyapriya says
I love those seepu cheedai .Long work needed for this murukku .But its all gone after we eat one .THanks for detailed post about karaikudi .Guess u grew up near that place right ?
Choc Chip Uru says
What a crispy and delicious snack, really want to try it 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Gourmet Getaways says
I've tasted different type sof murukku before and they can be addicting! Great for snack or a beer match!
Julie
Gourmet Getaways
Babitha costa says
perfect swathi.can munch it anytime
traditionallymodernfood says
I don't have murukku achu here:-( my fav murukku rember those childhood days when me and sis use to this murukku in each finger and eat.. Looks super tempting and nostalgia
julie says
nice name to a crsipy snack,yummy ones..can munch any numbers 🙂
Eliza Lincy says
Perfect teatime or festive time snack. Lovely.
easyfoodsmith says
My daughter is crazy about murukku and I always have to buy it from the store. Your step by step tutorial will help me try it in my kitchen. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Nalini Somayaji says
well said Chattinadu style seepu...and the interesting story .I am happy to read your blog to know the stories behind each blog...and the food of course..Thank you Swathi Iyyer..
Jayanthisindhiya says
Very nice explanation,good work.
Deepa says
Crispy and delicious looking murukkus. Excellent preparation. Belated Happy Onam to you.
Deepa
Jeena says
Delicious. I have eaten but never tried. Will plan to try sooner..
tigerfish says
This reminded me of the spiral-shaped muruku that one of my friend's mom usually make during special occasions.
priya satheesh says
wow.... delicious and tasty snack..Bookmarked for diwali 🙂
Sangeetha Nambi says
All time fav. Tea time muncher !
Shweta says
Such a tempting and crispy snack
Pam Capone says
I'm learning so much from you. Had no clue it was to be snacked on it looks a lot like a pasta.
Catherine says
i love anything sweet that goes with coffee or tea. Blessings, Catherine