Rice Murukku ~ Spicy version

With Diwali approaching, you might be spending a lot more time in the kitchen preparing all the snacks and sweets for your family and friends. Sweets are one important thing on the menu and so are snacks. I still remember having Dahi Vadas, Chaats, Chakli etc along with the sweets, which our neighbor aunty used to serve us for diwali. Yum they were. Years have gone by but those days and memories are still so fresh. This spicy version of chakli is something that you should try to add a little variety to usual murukku/chakli that you make. If your family loves spicy food then I bet this would definitely be a hit.

This recipe just happened when I was trying out some other snack and it usually takes a lot of time, but I had to head to some place in an hour and just thought of giving it the murukku avatar instead. It wasn't a flop at all. My lil one loves spicy food and when I made it, he kept coming back to me asking "Eruvulla murukku Tharamo" meaning "Can you give me the spicy murukku". 

Murukku / Chakli

Most of you might associate Chakli/Murukku with the festival of lights - Diwali. But for us, every other visit to the Indian store links to the very thought of Murukku :). Everytime we visit one, we would buy these and stock it.  Well, this snack had been so dear to our heart, that these never lasted long at home and would get over the day, we bought it. So one day, I decided to give it a try.

Its not that murukku making involves a very complicated process, but just that the fear of not having tried earlier, kept me pushing it. I searched on the internet but couldn't decide which one to go with. Infact, the recipe that I was looking for, was just a call away. Yes, it was with my mother :). Also, it being the first blog post of Palaharam, I thought to keep it simple. So, here you go.