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Manakkombhu (Manouppu)

Ingredients


Pachcharisi (raw rice) - 4 aazhakku (800 grams)
Moong dhal (payatham paruppu) - 3/4 aazhakku (150 grams)
Bengal gram(kadalai paruppu) - 1/4 aazhakku (50 gram)
Salt - 2 tablespoon
Butter (vennai) - 150 grams
Sesame (ellu) - 1/4 teaspoon


Preparation
  1. Lightly heat bengal gram and moong dhal
  2. Mix them with raw rice
  3. Grind them in a nearby flour mill
  4. If you do not have flour mill nearby, purchase rice powder. Grind the dal items nicely in a mixer grinder. Seive it using a jalladai. Mix this with rice flour
  5. Lightly heat butter till it melts and mix with the flour
  6. Add salt, sesame and mix thoroughly
  7. Split the flour into 2 portions (To maintain color consistency of manakombu, prepare dough separately 2 times)
  8. Mix water with first portion and prepare a dough
  9. Heat oil in a pan for frying
  10. Put the dough in a kuzhal and press it to over the oil in frying pan













5 comments:

  1. Anonymous27 September 2014 at 03:50

    Hi,
    the bakshanam looks yummy. I used store bought flour for all 3. When I try to press the kuzhal, the dough is not falling. After several attempts at pressing, I gave up. Can you please tell me where / what is the problem?
    Thanks.

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    1. Iyengar Thaligai27 September 2014 at 16:42

      Is the dough hard? Mix some oil/water and make it soft

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  2. Anonymous24 October 2016 at 02:35

    The trick is that you need to mix the flour with water in small batches. Once it is soaked in water for sometime, the dough will become hard.

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  3. Anonymous29 August 2021 at 21:36

    In this 4 th point in preparation column raw rice flour measurement will vary with raw rice right?? Then how measurement should be taken if store bought flour ??

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    1. Anonymous24 March 2024 at 02:39

      Good question, then take all three flours in the powder form whether brought from the store or ground in-house.

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