Kai murukku recipe with video, how to make kai murukku

Updated on October 21, 2024 by Raks Anand 111 Comments

Kai murukku recipe from scratch with video and step by step pictures and instructions. If you are looking for Gokulashtami festive snack recipes, then this hand-twisted snack is a traditional south Indian snack you should try. Though it needs practice and skill to do this, if you are fascinated and wish to take it as challenge, I have shared how to make it with detailed steps.

I always prepare this for Krishna jayanthi, you can prepare whenever you feel like trying this snack.

Check out my other Diwali snacks and Krishna jayanthi recipes - butter murukku and p ottukadalai murukku in this website.

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Murukku shaping tips
How to make kai murukku recipe method:
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My grandma is an expert in making these "Kai murukku". She makes it so fast and its will look so elegant when she makes it with ease. My mom too makes kai murukku, but both their style differs a lot.

I always loved watching them making it for Gokulashtami. I used to sit and hear all those stories and gossips they both used to talk. My paati also makes murukku in shapes of some small kolams specially for me.

They will be so so cute.These homemade kai murukkus are so different in flavour and taste than we buy from the shops. I love this homemade murukkus for its flavour and unique taste. Next to uppu seedai and vella seedai, kai murukku is my favorite.

Murukku shaping tips

I always try my hands in making these murukku whenever I make thenkuzhal or other murukku with little dough reserved for this. Last year for diwali I tried with small portions, but I could not make it thin and hence ended up in chewy and hard murukkus.

But this time, I took the recipe from my mom and made this with freshly ground rice flour and indeed got perfect taste, just like my paati/amma's murukku.

By posting this recipe here with video,by no means I am claiming I had learnt making this in a perfect way. Just posting whatever I made/learnt/got. I am sure by practice I can make perfect murukkus,not only in taste but in shapes too very soon.

Please note, 1 cup rice yields 1 & ½ to 2 cups approx rice flour depending on the variety of rice you use. Sp the recipe below is with 2 cups of the flour. But the video is with 1 cup flour 🙂

How to make kai murukku recipe method:

Soak rice for at least 2 hours and drain the water, spread it in a clean cloth to absorb the excess water. Though I have used newspaper i recommend to avoid as the print ink is said to be harmful which I learnt recently.
Grind it to a fine powder in a mixer.Sieve the flour(you can add the remaining coarse rice to the next batch grinding). Don't press(rub) and sieve. Do it gently.
Fry the urad dal flour until nice aroma wafts.( You can fry the urad dal until deep golden in medium flame and powder,sieve it too. I used ready made store bought urad dal flour)
Mix rice flour,urad flour,sesame seeds, butter, asafoetida and salt well.
Add water and make it to a smooth pliable dough. The dough should not have any cracks. Also take care not to add more water. So be careful when you add water. Add slowly and little by little. It should be loose enough to make the murukku.
Take small ball and make twists/murukkus in a clean cotton cloth. Grease your hands every now and then with water while making murukku. Which helps easy flowing of swirls. Also, while making swirls, make sure you hold ur hand higher and let the murukku strand hand so that making twist swirls is easy. Refer the video how I made. Its bit tricky,but sure you can learn. Make all the dough to murukkus.
Heat enough oil in kadai and drop 3-4 at a time. Use dosa flipper (dosa thiruppi)for taking the murukku from the cloth.
Cook in medium flame. Flip the murukku after it floats on top and the shhhh…sound ceases. Fry until both sides are evenly cooked up to golden in colour.
Store in airtight container after cooled down. The flavour is in its best when eaten from the next day.

Sure by practice I hope to make the swirls perfect in future.

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