Ribbon Murukku

Ingredients:
1 cup Gram flour
1 ½ cups Rice flour
1 ½ tsp salt (or as needed)
6 Garlic pods
Ginger (half the quantity of garlic)
4/5 Dry red chilies
1 Tbsp Fennel seeds
¼ tsp Asafetida powder
1 tbsp Oil or Ghee
Oil for deep frying

Method:
Paste the ginger, garlic, red chilies, and fennel seeds with half a cup of water, filter it and keep the water. Add salt and asafetida to the water. Add oil to the rice and gram flour followed by the filtered water and knead together to form a stiff dough. It should be somewhat like the consistency of chapatti dough.

Put 2 Tbsps of the dough in the Ribbon murukku mould

and press it over hot oil and deep fry until golden brown. This recipe is also sent to SriLekha's EFM Savouries;