Manapparai Murukku

Manapparai Murukku is a variety of murukku, a traditional Indian snack from the town of Manapparai in Tiruchirappalli district in the state of Tamil Nadue Murukku derives from the Tamil word for "twisted", which refers to its shape. The brain behind the industry was Krishna Iyer. Before Independence, he started this as a cottage industry and sold this first in Maṇappāṟai. In 2010, the Tamil Nadu government applied for a geographical indication tag for Manapparai Murukku.

Once when Mahatma Gandhi came to the Manapparai Railway junction, he happily told his friends about its taste after eating Manapparai Murukku. It was the ideal South Indian travel snack. Later it was takeover by immigrants from Usilambatti, Madurai. From 1951 Meesaikkarar @ Kasimaya Thevar [one of the migrant] and also his relatives had applying special techniques and add more taste like neither sweet nor spicy, and makes the murukku famous as 'Manapparai Murukku'.

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