Garlic Thattai murukku is a variation of Southern Indian Thattai recipe. Thattai is a deep-fried spicy and crispy rice fritters. Adding garlic to the thattai is my mother’s twist to the thattai recipe. Just adding few crushed garlic cloves to the usual thattai makes a whole lot of change in the flavor. To experience the flavor bust, do try this garlic thattai murukku recipe.

Please check out other thattai recipes like onion thattai, peanut thattai, thattai buttons, pepper thattai,ulundu murukku.

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Ingredients :

• 1 cup raw rice flour(I used store-bought rice flour)
• 1 tbsp of roasted gram powder (or) 2 tbsp for a soft texture.
• 2 tsp of soaked channa dhal
  (Soak the channa dhal in the water for an hour)
• 1 tbsp of hot oil (or) butter for a soft texture
• half cup and 2 tbsp of water
• 3/4 tsp of salt
• oil for deep fry
• 2 – medium garlic cloves
• 1/2 tsp of red chili powder
• 1/8 tsp of asafoetida(optional)
• 3 – curry leaves-chopped

Step 1: Roasted gram flour :

1. Take the required roasted gram(pottukadalai) in a blender and grind it to a fine powder. 
2. To make sure there are no chunks in the powder, sieve the grind roasted gram powder.
3. For 1/2 cup roasted gram powder, you will get around 6 tbsp powder after sieving.

Procedure:

Step 2: Garlic Thattai Dough:

1. In a bowl, combine the rice flour, butter, salt, soaked channa dhal, asafoetida, roasted gram flour, and curry leaves.
2. Crush the garlic with the skin add to the bowl and mix well.
3. Pour water little by little and make a soft dough as we make for chapati/tortilla
4. Add the red chili powder and pour the hot oil over the chili powder. Once the oil is warm to touch, Combine the chili and oil with the dough.
5. Make small lemon size balls of the dough and smooth out the surface.
6. On a damp cotton cloth, Flatten each ball to medium thickness circle. If the circle is very thin then it would stick on the cloth. You could also plastic bag or banana leaf to flatten the dough balls. If required, grease the finger with oil.
7. In a deep dish, the heat required oil and when oil is heated up, place a thattai on the backside of the ladle and slowly drop the thattai into the oil. When the first thattai rises up, drop the second one. Similarly, add a few thattai in one batch. 
8. After 10 seconds or so, flip the garlic thattai. Once in a while, flip the thattai and let it fry until crispy.
9. Once the oil bubbles stopped, take out the crispy thattai from the hot oil and place it on a tissue paper.
10. When the hotness on the thattai is completely reduced, store in an airtight container. Thattai will stay fresh for two weeks.

Note : Excess garlic will make the thattai to break while frying. So carefully limit the quantity of garlic.

Roasted Gram Dhal/Dalia

Summary

Recipe Name

Garlic thattai murukku

Author

Swaana

Date

2019-10-11

Prep Time

5M

Cook Time

30M

Total Time

35M

Average rating

1.5 Based on 3 Review(s)