Cuisine Style: Tamil Nadu, South India | Preparation & Cooking Time: 15 minutes | To Serve: 2 | Take with: Curd rice, tea, coffee | Type: Easy diwali & pongal snacks or crisps

Ingredients

• Raw rice - 1 cup
• Urad dal - 2 tbsp
• Asafoetida - 1 tsp
• Cumin seeds -1 tbsp
• Hot oil - 3 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Butter - 3 tbsp
• Oil for deep frying
• Water as needed

Preparation Method

• Wash & soak raw rice for 2 to 3 hours.
• Then drain water, put it in a cotton cloth let it dry for 30 min
• 30 min later, put it in a mixie jar, grind to fine powder
• Roast 2 tbsp urad dal, then grind to fine powder
• In a bowl add powdered rice, urad dal, seive without lumps
• Add salt, hot oil, butter, cumin, asafoetida, water mix well, make soft elastic like dough
• Take clean cotton cloth, place 1 bottle cap, take 1 lemon size ball
• Make twist & shape kai murukku
• Heat enough oil in a pan, Drop kai murukku, deep fry till crisp on medium hot oil.
• Flip over & fry another side.
• Once it ready or the oil sound disappears then take it out & drain on absorbent paper.
• Leave it for room temperature [Apr. 2 min]. Then store in an airtight container
  

How to make Kai Murukku Video

How to make Kai murukku-Stepwise pictures

Perfect kai murukku

Suthu murukku

Take 1 cup raw rice

wash and soak it for 2 to 3 hous

Drain water completely

Soaked rice ready

spread over cotton cloth, let it dry for 30 min

Evenly spread

Raost urad dal

Let it cool

Grind to fine powder

Urad dal powder ready

30 min later, still moisture is there

Dont dry for long time

Put it in a mixie jar,

grind to fine powder

Rice flour ready

Put it in a seiver

Seive without lumps

Perfect rice flour

Transfer to a bowl

Add urad dal flour, seive

3 tbsp hot oil

Salt

Cumin seeds

Butter

add water

Make soft dough

Elastick like texture

Perfect kai murukku dough ready

Make ki murukku

Place bottle cap, shape murukku

Twist , shape

Repeat for 3 round

Perfect shape

Stick end

Perfect raw kai murukku

Heat oil, drop it

Deep fry till crisp

Fry lo-medium flame

Oil sound disappears

Reamove it from pan

Perfect suthu murukku

Kai murukku chettinad

handmade murukku

Kai suthu murukku

Handmade twist murukku