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    Home » Recipes » Snacks

    Cashew murukku recipe | Mundhiri murukku

    Updated on September 7, 2022 by Raks Anand 25 Comments / Jump to Recipe

    Cashew murukku, mundhiri murukku is a crispy snack, with rice flour and cashews as main ingredients. Mini version to make it exciting. Perfect for festivals like Krishna Janmashtami and Diwali. You can also make it for snack time.

    mundhuri murukku recipe
    Cashew nut murukku

    I had this recipe for mundhiri murukku from last year Diwali itself. My MIL told this recipe after seeing it in a cookery show.

    But could not post it. But this is the perfect time for posting these cute tiny murukkus for Janmashtami. Kutti kutti murukku for kutti Krishnar.

    I have seen this Chinna chinna murukku in Sri krishna sweets.

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    So this one is inspired from it. My MIL told to try as chinna chinna kai murukku, but I made it in murukku press itself.

    Kids would love this too as they are looking cute. I had fun making this murukku.

    Do try it for your family. It is easy, comes out light and crispy, golden in color too, with simple ingredients at home!

    cashew murukku recipe
    MIni murukku Mundhiri murukku

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    My notes

    Reading the name cashew nut murukku may give you an impression that it is majorly with cashews. But it's not, contrary it is with rice flour.

    You can use store bought rice flour or Homemade. Do check out how to make rice flour in my website.

    I use idiyappam flour, for the fact it is processed and makes it easier to cook, fried and hence perfect crispy mundhiri murukku.

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    Cashew murukku, mundhiri murukku

    Cashew murukku, mundhiri murukku is a crispy snack, with rice flour and cashews as main ingredients.
    Course Snack
    Cuisine Indian
    Prep Time 15 minutes minutes
    Cook Time 25 minutes minutes
    Servings 30 mini murukku
    Cup measurements

    Ingredients

    • Rice flour / idiyappam flour - 1 cup
    • Cashew nuts - 15
    • Asafoetida / hing/ Perungayam - 1 generous pinch
    • Sesame seeds - 1 & ½ tsp
    • Salt
    • Ghee/ melted butter - 1 tsp optional
    • Oil - For deep frying
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    Instructions

    • Grind cashew nuts with little water, smoothly. There shouldn’t be any cashew bits seen.
    • Place the rice flour, salt, asafoetida, sesame seeds, ghee in a mixing bowl. Add the ground cashew to it. Add enough water little by little and make a smooth dough without any cracks. Should not be sticky either.
    • Take a single holed star or this colver shaped plate in the murukku press. Fill the press with dough.
    • Press into small coils/ circles as shown in the picture. You can press in greased ladles (you may need a lot) or greased back of a plate, or even greased small flat plates.  Heat oil in a kadai and when hot, drop these tiny murukkus carefully into oil. You can slide each one slowly along the sides of the kadai.
    • Cook in medium flame. Turn the murukku in between and cook until bubble ceases and shh… sound stops.Drain in paper towels and repeat to finish the dough.

    Notes

    My MIL even tried adding few badams reducing the cashews. 10 cashews and 5 soaked and peeled badam. It comes out good.
    You can do the same with any plate in the press – star or the regular thenkuzhal press.
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    Stepwise photos

    1. Grind cashew nuts with little water, smoothly. There shouldn’t be any cashew bits seen.

    grind mundhiri

    2. Place the rice flour, salt, asafoetida, sesame seeds, ghee in a mixing bowl. Add the ground cashew to it.

    Springkle enough water little by little and make a smooth dough without any cracks. Should not be sticky either.

    Dough

    3. Take a single holed star or this clover shaped plate in the murukku press. Fill the press with dough.

    press

    4. Press into small coils/ circles as shown in the picture. You can press in greased ladles (you may need a lot) or greased back of a plate, or even greased small flat plates. 

    Heat oil in a kadai and when hot, drop these tiny murukkus carefully into oil. You can slide each one slowly along the sides of the kadai.

    squeeze into mini shapes, fry it

    5. Cook in medium flame. Turn the murukku in between and cook until bubble ceases and shh… sound stops.

    Drain in paper towels and repeat to finish the dough.

    mundhiri murukku ready

    Store in air tight containers after it completely cools down. Enjoy!

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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. sankar saranya

      August 14, 2014 at 7:49 am

      Tempting muruku, regularly we use coconut milk muruku. Its different

      Reply
    2. jeyashri suresh

      August 14, 2014 at 8:07 am

      Super tempting murukku. Krishnar will enjoy for sure

      Reply
    3. Ramya Venkateswaran

      August 14, 2014 at 8:12 am

      inviting rich murukku and sure He will enjoy this

      Reply
    4. akshaya

      August 14, 2014 at 8:15 am

      Hi Raji, iam ur fan of ur blog. alomost a daily visitor. can u post some tips/ recipes for weight loss?

      Reply
    5. Veena Theagarajan

      August 14, 2014 at 8:15 am

      super tasty murukku

      Reply
    6. AparnaRajeshkumar

      August 14, 2014 at 8:20 am

      That's pretty . Lovely too

      Reply
    7. Unknown

      August 14, 2014 at 8:57 am

      Lovely muruku thank you for the superb rich muruku

      Reply
    8. Padmini Raghuram

      August 14, 2014 at 9:45 am

      Super muruku sure krishna likes it

      Reply
    9. harini

      August 14, 2014 at 10:11 am

      Cute murukkus .seems to be easily done.

      Reply
    10. Sowmya Madhavan

      August 14, 2014 at 10:35 am

      Good interesting recipe

      Reply
    11. Shweet Spicess

      August 14, 2014 at 12:39 pm

      so nicely it has come out 🙂

      Reply
    12. Chandra

      August 15, 2014 at 1:25 am

      Great recipe.
      The test is one my patience - waiting to offer to Krishnar before eating them.
      Sabaash!

      Reply
    13. Lavanya N

      August 23, 2014 at 10:14 am

      I tried this for krishna jayanthi this time. Came out super good. Thanks Raks!!

      Reply
    14. vino

      October 10, 2014 at 7:14 am

      Hi raks,

      I tried many of your dishes. It came out good. Can I use the store bought rice flour for this murrukku ?

      Thanks
      Vino

      Reply
    15. Raks anand

      October 10, 2014 at 7:15 am

      Sure you can

      Reply
    16. s_rini

      September 04, 2015 at 3:06 am

      Hello mam, I am a regular follower of your blog, I tried and tasted this muruku recipe today, but I felt the cashew flavor was very mild. I felt the taste was a little lesser than expected. I added the quantity as mentioned in ur recipe. Where would I be wrong ?

      Reply
    17. Raks anand

      September 04, 2015 at 3:12 am

      It will have very mild flavour or be will like any other murukku murukku only.

      Reply
    18. Unknown

      September 06, 2015 at 6:10 am

      this is a super simple snack. I tried this today and came out very well!! thanks 🙂

      Reply
    19. Leni

      November 09, 2015 at 2:13 pm

      Can white sesame seed be used instead of black?

      Reply
    20. Raks anand

      November 09, 2015 at 2:18 pm

      Sure

      Reply
    21. Unknown

      October 30, 2016 at 1:02 am

      Hi Raji I tried this murukku it's amazing. Infact this is my first time. I can proudly say,I started cooking after checking ur blog it's very helpful for newcomers.

      Thanks
      Madhu

      Reply
    22. Sandhya Ramkumar

      October 19, 2017 at 10:17 am

      Tried it. It came out very well. Crispy n perfect.

      Reply
    23. Creative Thinker!!!!

      November 08, 2018 at 11:01 pm

      Came out amazing!! Couldn't help myself from eating them as I did the murukku. Was very hard to control myself!!

      Reply
    24. Prasanthi

      April 15, 2021 at 8:09 pm

      Hi Raji...I tried with normal rice flour..followed your recipe exactly..Don't know why the dough was very hard to press...I was tired trying with just cups of flour...please help me where I went wrong..

      Reply
      • Raks Anand

        April 15, 2021 at 9:47 pm

        If it is hard to press, you can try making the dough loose by including more water content. Dip the dough in water and knead for having control over the water. Also, I recommend using screw type murukku press. Let me know if you have more questions.

        Reply

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