Palak Chakli / Palak Murukku

Palak Murukku  is a very famous snack in Bangalore and I saw it being sold on the streets of many Bangalore areas. When I saw the recipe of this murruku in a magazine, I wanted to try it out. 

It came out very well. Since it is a good health snack, I recommend this to be tried out.

Recipe Cuisine: South Indian | Recipe Category: Snacks

Preparation Time: 15 mins | Cooking Time: 15 mins | Yields:  15 (medium size)

Ingredients:

Rice Flour	½ cup
Urad Dal Flour (click here for homemade urad dal flour recipe)	2 tbsp
Butter	½ tbsp
Ajwain (omam)	½ tsp
Palak  Leaves	15-20 leaves
Salt	As required

Procedure:

1. Clean and remove the thick stem of the palak leaves. Wash the leaves and keep it aside.

2. Heat one cup of water in a wide bowl. Bring it to boil and switch off the flame. Then put the washed palak leaves into the hot water.

3.  Leave it for 2 mins and remove from the water and strain it completely.

4. Grind them into a fine paste using mixer grinder with little water.

5. Extract the juice from the paste using the strainer. Keep it aside.

6. In a wide bowl, add rice flour, urad dal flour, ajwain and butter. Mix them well with your fingers. It should look like a bread crumbs.

7. Now add the palak water (from step 5)  little by little and knead a soft dough. Add enough palak water only to make dough. If you have excess water, you can use it for other purpose. Otherwise you don’t have enough palak water to make dough, you can add normal water.

8. Take the murukku-press and choose the design as per your wish. I used star design.  (mullu murukku design).

4. Grease the murukku-press with oil, then fill the murukku-press with dough upto ¾ of the press. Press a round shape on the ladle. I used 2 ladles for quick process.

5. Heat the oil in a pan till it becomes hot or put a pinch of dough into the oil. If the dough comes up immediately, then this is the correct stage of oil heating.

6. Now flip the ladle over the oil. After a min, flip the murukku and cook till the sizzling sound reduces completely.

7. Take it out from the oil and drain them using tissue paper. Repeat this for remaining dough also. Allow it to cool down completely and store it in a air tight container.

   Healthy and tasty murukku is ready.

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Palak Appam

     Many people do not like to take greens/keerais. For them palak appam is a good option with palak aappam you get nice green color and also no difference from normal white aappam. Kids also will love it for the color.

Recipe Cuisine : South Indian | Recipe Category: Breakfast

Preparation Time:  5 mins  | Cooking Time: 5 mins| Yields: 5 nos

Ingredients:

Aapam Batter (click here for the recipe)	1 cup
Palak Leaves	½ bunch or 5-7 leaves
Green Chilli	1
Salt	To taste
Oil	For make aappam

Procedure:

1. Heat one cup of water in a wide bowl. Bring it to boil and add the green chilli.

2. Then switch off the flame and put the washed palak leaves into the hot water. Remove the stem if the stems are very strong, otherwise use the stem also.

3.  Leave it for 2 mins and remove it from the water and strain it completely.

4. Grind them into a fine paste using mixer grinder with little water .

5. Now mix this palak paste with aappam batter. Mix them well and keep it aside for 5 – 10 mins.

6. Heat the aappam pan and pour few drops of oil. Then pour 2 ladle full of batter into the pan. Now rotate the pan in a circular motion, so that the batter spreads all over the pan. See the video for how to make the aappam.

7. Now pour few drops of oil and close the lid of the pan. Cook for 2-3 mins.

8. Then take it out from the pan and serve it hot with Tomato chutney.

Click the following video for how to make flower aappam.

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Palak Poori

    The value of  color poori is giving attractive green color to the normal pooris and also mixing the goodness of palak with the tastiness of poori. For kids this makes them eat more and also intake the healthy palak.

Recipe Cuisine : Indian | Recipe Category: Breakfast

                         Preparation Time: 15 mins  | Cooking Time: 5 mins | Serves: 2

Ingredients:

Wheat Flour	1 cup
Palak Leaves	½ bunch or 5-7 leaves
Green Chilli	1
Salt	To taste
Oil	For Deep Fry

 Procedure:

1. Heat one cup of water in a wide bowl. Bring it to boil and add the green chilli.

2. Then switch off the flame and put the washed palak leaves into the hot water. Remove the stem if the stems are very strong, otherwise use with stem.

3.  Leave it for 2 mins and remove from the water and strain it completely.

4. Grind them into a fine paste using mixer grinder with little water .

5. Add the wheat flour, palak paste and salt in a bowl. Mix them well, then add water little by little and knead it into a soft dough.

6.  Divide the dough into a small lemon size balls and rollout into small pooris.

7. Heat the oil in a pan and slide the poori into it. After few seconds press it with the help of the ladle with the holes. When it puffs up, turn over it carefully and fry the poori till the poori becomes crisp. Then take it out from the oil and drain the oil using tissue paper.

 Healthy and colorful palak  poori is ready. Serve it with poori masala or vegetable kuruma or raitha.

Note:

1.  You can also filter the palak paste before using it.

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