I am fooling you guys on a Monday. This is not a recipe. This is not even normal, I think.
Flashback: my brother does weird things with his evening snacks. When the rest of dunk biscuits in tea, he would put two spoons of peanuts mixture in his tea (that's right, inside his tea) and then drink it up, finally using a spoon to scoop out the sodden mixture bits. As grossed out as I used to be with that, sakkiram podichinti is a brilliant concoction of his.
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| These are usually round when whole but a lot of them break during transit |
Sakkiram is reddiar murukku. Its made primarily with rice flour and is hand-made through and through. The spiralling design is done by hand and no mould or press can give you that shape. I will post the recipe and how its made soon, but today, here's my brother's whacky snack idea.
Throw 4 murukku broken into pieces, 1 tablespoon grated coconut and 2-3tsp sugar in a mixer bowl.
Powder it until you get a mixture like so.
Scrape out the sides - the stuff sticking to the side is the best - and transfer to a bowl.
Eat with hot tea or coffee as a snack. If you add more coconut, you can probably make these into balls. We have never bothered!
Update: I called up the brother now to ask how he came up with this idea and he says, our great grandmother used to make this for our grandfather (her son in law, btw) since he lost all his teeth at a pretty young age and never got false teeth. Of course, she never used a Sumeet mixie for it but relied on a pestle and mortar to coarsely grind the murukku as an evening snack for her son in law, but that's where the idea originated from!
Miri
The things people do for their sons-in-laws!! 😉
I have seen people eating potato wafers dunked in tea, chocolate cake dunked in tea....this is atleast palatable (to me;)
Sriram Khé
We used to do something similar--instead of sugar, mix the crushed murukku with "moru" (buttermilk) salt and, if you prefer, chili flakes ... awesome it is 🙂
Home Cooked Oriya Food
love the wacky idea...
Anonymous
good one...v all have brothers with weird palates,huh?!btw,is this similar to avalos podi v get in kerala?
Rachana
This is brilliant 🙂
RAKS KITCHEN
Hey my granny to used to do the same as she to have no teeth to grind 😉
Priya
Quite a different snack, just love it..
Kalyani
wow nice idea ... looks like a different snack ....
Anu
That is just absolutely brilliant - only a connoisuer would come up with this. My thanks to your bro!
Sharmilee! :)
Interesting idea...I ahve been eyeing on the table mat for long looks so gud on pics 🙂