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.
 |
| 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 tbsp 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!
i remember my mother grinding the leftover murukkus frm Diwali (if there was any!) with coconut and sugar and roasting it as well! it was yummy!!
hehehe… your brother's not alone! stuff Ive had over the years:
1. back when sundried kappa were fried as a snack – some of it would be ground in the mixie with sugar… very yum.
2. ever tried sev sanwiches?
3. banana chips soggy with tomato ketchup?
…. these some of my favourite things (my heart breaks into a song at this point… a la… sound of music)
hi
My hubby loves to eat this too…
Here goes our version:
chakilam podi hot
chakilam, garlic (1 flake), chilli, if have nippat too.
chakilam podi sweet(my favourite)
chakilam, pa(g)am pappu(jaggery coated chuneydhall/peanut)
i love indian tea…please could you also add the recipe of tea…
lovely pics!
Peanuts dunked in Tea !!!! Now that is something. This mix though should be lovely as long as not dunked in tea
Believe it or not, I used to do this with chakkidam (your sakkiram in our Telugu 🙂 ) and milk pedas – tastes great.
awee grandma trick is very interesting….am craving for muruku for years if i get them wouldn't wait to powder them but binge immediately 😀
Sharmilee, the table runner is from Ikea. I liked it as soon as I lay my eyes on it. Came home, checked the tag and realised its made in India. Ah well 😀
Sig, this tastes a bit different from avalos podi but yeah, comparable 🙂
Nice idea.. I love banana chips dunked in tea.. wait until they are soggy and eat them.
That's a neat idea 🙂 With some coconut and sugar it should taste like avalosu podi, right?
Hey my granny to used to do the same as she to have no teeth to grind 😉
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;)
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 🙂
Interesting idea…I ahve been eyeing on the table mat for long looks so gud on pics 🙂
love the wacky idea…
good one…v all have brothers with weird palates,huh?!btw,is this similar to avalos podi v get in kerala?
This is brilliant 🙂
Quite a different snack, just love it..
wow nice idea … looks like a different snack ….
That is just absolutely brilliant – only a connoisuer would come up with this. My thanks to your bro!
haha nice idea.. would like to try.
You won't believe it but my husband loves to eat murukku this way too. I was quite surprised to hear about this. My MIL explained that this was how it was given to older pple but the kids started liking it too.
very different and interesting snack!
My grandmother used to powder banana chips,kappa chips and murukkus for my grandfather for the same reason.We kids would often fight for our share..lol.But this is a very unique idea for a snack!!
Just today my colleagues were teasing me about my habit of eating sugar with anything(idly,dosa,poori,you name it and I eat it). So, I understand the wackiness of your bro 😀 And that tells – I should try this!
Hb.
LOL…this is something which no one would have or wud never post!..LOL our anna's spl concoction..:)..Love Love Love it!..
Now, I am badly craving for some sakkiram podichinti :((((
Your brother indee have a weird taste 🙂 I remembe rwhen i was little my grandmother, doing the sam as she didn't had any more teeth, pounding the avalos unga etc… in the traditional way so that she can enjoy them too.
yes, the mugs are from Ikea 🙂 I use them for practically everything! And you can MW them too.
Interesting to know about the chakli podi!
Nags,we make something similar to this called chakli podi which we prepare with white chakli and add spices to it…good to see a version of it here…
and ur brother story,I can never think of someone dunking peanuts in tea…
That cup is from Ikea na??all my blue colored Ikea cups are broken leaving me with only green colored one's..I just love those as they are very convenient..
Nags, Herez something that my aunt does… grind left-over cakes, mixtures, murukku,biscuits, etc, together.. add coconut.. make them into small balls, like our ariyunda..(no need to add sugar or salt as per my taste). I have added coarsely ground peanuts too for the crunch 🙂