The literal translation of Thenkuzhal into english is "Tubes of Honey". I dont know to be honest why the name Thenkuzhal for this recipe because it is not a sweet recipe. Neverthless, it is a very good crispy evening snacks and in our home we make this for many festivals. As you know during festival days, we used to share the snacks and sweets to the friends and relatives and we can not afford buying them from the shops. So usually we make them in our home and thenkuzhal is one of the common recipe.
My dear readers living in abroad, if you dont have the thenkuzhal nazhi (thenkuzhal press & mould) then you can not make this recipe, but please make sure that you get one nazhi when you visit india next time.
Ingredients Thenkuzhal Recipe:
| Rice Flour | 2 Cups |
| Urdhal | 3 Tablespoon |
| Salt | To Taste |
| Cumin Seeds | 1 Teaspoon |
| Hing | A Pinch |
| Oil | For Frying |
| Butter | 1/2 cup |
Accessories Required:
| Thenkuzhal Press |
| Thenkuzhal Mould |
Method:
- Break the cumin seeds. You can put this in a mixer and grind it for a second. Don't make it into a nice powder.
- Dry fry the urdhal in a pan and grind it in a mixer to a nice powder.
- Mix the rice flour, urdhal powder, cumin seeds powder, salt, butter and hing in a vessel
- Add water and make the flour into a chapati like dough
- Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan, and when the oil is hot add a little piece of dough to check for the hotness. When the dough raises immediately then the oil is ready for frying
- Put 1 hand full of dough in a press, and close the press with Thenkuzhal mould. Squeeze the dough to a big circle.
- Deep fry the Thenkuzhal in low flame till it is crisp and turns golden brown color.
- Take it out and place it in a oil strainer with a paper towel to remove excess oil and allow it to cool.
- Store it in a air tight container and serve.
- The delicious Thenkuzhal is ready to serve.
Dear Aunty,
ReplyDeleteI have been following all the festival procedures sited in this website.
I have one more request if you give the no of servings it would be easy .
thanks
raje
Dear Aunty,
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for this recipe. Tried this recipe today and it came out very well. And this is the first time I am trying out a bhakshanam.
Thanks
meena
can you post the recipe for mullu thenkuzhal because it is not showing up
ReplyDeleteHello Aunty,
ReplyDeleteIs this Uraddhal quantity as a powder or as dry dhal itself? If its powder, how much should I use?
thanks
purnima
Hi Purnima
ReplyDeleteIts Uraddhal powder !. You can fry Uraddhal and make a powder. For 2 cups of Rice flour you would need 3 table spoon of Uraddhal powder.
you can try the plastic ketchup bottles as an alternative to thenkuzhal press.
ReplyDeleteDear Mami
ReplyDeleteTried thenkuzhal recipe came out well thanka a lot
awesome..
ReplyDeleteHello Aunty,
ReplyDeleteThanks for a wonderful and helpful blog. When I tried making this today, the thenkuzhal didnt remain whole. It broke into small piieces as soon as I put the dough in oil. what could be wrong? Is it the consistency? How do I avoid it next time?
Thanks
Savitha
Even i had the same issue... i tried adding little water and tried it was better but it was very fragile....
ReplyDeleteit will be very helpful if aunty could help us with amount of water and butter as this is affecting the crispness.
ReplyDeleteDear mami,
ReplyDeleteI tried the thenkuzhal today. It came out very well. Thank you very much for the recipe.
Hello aunty,
ReplyDeleteI tried thenkuzhal recipe today. I couldnt press the dough in complete circle... It broke into pieces... I fried these pieces itself as murrukku... It tasted good but was very very fragile... It would be very helpful if you would let me know where i went wrong.
Thanks in advance,
Rohini
Hi Rohini, sorry to hear about this. I guess you have made the dough very hard i.e you must have added little water. If the dough is very dry, it will make the dough brittle. So try one more time by adding enough water to make like a chapati dough and give a try.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much aunty for the reply.... Will try again correcting the mistake... :)
ReplyDeleteRohini