Potato Murukku

Deepfried snacks are quite welcome that too when the temperature goes under 0°c.. we had a rainy weekend and i tried out making some crispy deepfried crispies for our snacks, this time i wanted to make some murukku coz i have nt prepared these deepfried beauties since deepavali also i wished to prepare them quite different from the usual murukku..I got hooked to this potato murukku at Raji's Rak's Kitchen as this recipe went just for rice flour,cooked potatoes,butter and salt which sounds absloutely easy for me and tried out this sunday,needless to say the whole batch i prepared vanished within few hours and am gonna make some again this coming weekend..Thanks to Raji for sharing this delicious potato murukku with us,which goes for easy preparation..Sending to Jayasri's Blogger's Marathon - Rak's Kitchen..

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2cups Rice flour
1no Potato (big & cooked)
1tsp Cumin seeds
1/4tsp Asafoetida powder
1/4cup Butter (room temperature)
Oil
Salt

Grind the cooked potato with butter and enough water as fine paste, take the rice flour,cumin seeds, asafoetida powder, salt in a large bowl,gradually add the grounded paste,water and knead as soft and smooth dough..Heat enough oil of deepfrying..

Gently drop enough dough in a murukku press with star nozzle or three holes nozzle and squeeze out the dough in a greased plate,drop gently to the hot oil and cook until the bubbles gets off from the oil, drain the murukkus in paper towel and arrange in air tightened box...