Sieve the flour using a fine sieve over a white cotton cloth. You have to tie the flour using the same cloth like a lump and keep it inside a container or box.

Next steam cook the flour in a pressure cooker or steamer for about 15 minutes. When you untie the steam cooked flour, it would have turned hard like a rock. Let it cool for few minutes.

Break the flour using fingers, sieve it once again and collect it in a wide bowl. Add sesame seeds and salt to this.

Adding water in steps, make pliable dough from the flour. After steam cooking, the maida would have lost it's gluten, so the dough won't stick to your fingers. Divide it into equal portions and fill 3/4 of the murukku press with the dough.

Next press the murukku over a piece of square paper in a pattern shown below. Heat oil in a wok and as it gets heated up, slowly slide the murukku from paper in to oil. In medium flame deep fry the murukku, cook both sides and remove when they turn golden brown. Drain them over kitchen tissue.

Repeat the process with rest of the dough. Easy and instant maida murukku is ready to offer to Lord Krishna on his birthday. Store them in airtight container and enjoy for weeks.

You can use Idli steamer or pressure cooker to steam cook the flour. I used pressure cooker and steamed for about 15 minutes without keeping the whistle.

If you are making in large quantity, you have to extend steam cooking for few more minutes.

Do not try to break the flour immediately after steam cooking and let it cool down for 5 minutes.

I usually press the murukku over a square paper, so that I can easily slide them in to oil without altering the shape of chakli.

You can use either black or white sesame seeds. But roast them before use.

To check oil, drop a pinch of dough and see if it raises to the surface immediately. If so, the oil is rightly heated and you can start deep frying.

Always keep the flame medium low when you are deep frying.