Chakli

Chakli - Namitha Tickare


Recipe:

4 cups Rice, washed and dried in shade1 cup Phutane (roasted split chickpeas)
½ cup Udad dal (split black gram)
½ cup Chana dal (Bengal gram)
¼ cup Cumin seeds (jeera) 3 tsp Red chilli powder
Salt to taste
3 tsp Sesame seeds (white til)
½ tsp Asafoetida (hing)
3 tsp Carom seeds (ajwain/ova)
Oil for deep frying

For the Chakali flour:-1 Lightly roast the washed and dried rice, udad dal, chana dal, and cumin seeds. Keep aside to cool.
2 Add the Phutane dal and grind it from a flour mill.

How do we proceed:- 

1 Take the chakali flour in a bowl. Add the red chilli powder, salt to taste, Sesame seeds, Asafoetida, Carom seeds and 1 tbsp of hot oil and mix well.2 Add water as required and knead medium soft dough. Add the kneaded dough in a chakali press and press down the dough while your hand moving round to make chakali roundels on a paper.
3 Make 3-4 chakali roundels at a time.
4 Heat oil for deep frying in a kadhai. When the oil is warm enough add the chakali for deep frying in the batches of 3-4 chakali’s at a time and fry it on low flame for 2 minutes on each side or till done.
5 Drain and remove from the kadhai and keep on absorbent paper to soak excess oil.
6 Repeat steps 3 and 4 for more chakali’s.
7 After they are cooled, store them in air tight containers.