[Diwali Special]------Chakuli(Chakli/Murkku)

This is a must snack for  Diwali in my mom's house.My dad likes chakuli a lot.And now whenever these grandchildren demand for it my mom prepares it.there are many ways of preparing chakuli,today i am going to share rice and urad chakuli.My mom also makes just rice flour chakuli which is also very tasty.
Try and enjoy this Delicious chakuli .
Ingredients:
4 cup rice flour
1 cup urad dal flour
1/4 cup kaddle phutani(dalia/roasted channa dal)
1 tbsp red chili powder
salt as per taste
1 tsp sesame seeds
1 tsp jeera(cumin seeds)optional
oil for frying
1 stick butter

Method

Melt the butter in microwave for 20seconds.
Grind the chutney dal into nice powder.
Mix both the flour and just make the flours warm.
Now mix all the ingredients in big kneading bowl and knead into a dough adding sufficient water.

the dough should not be very hard and it should not be very watery and sticky.cover the dough with wet tissue so that dough should not be dried while making it.
Now take a Kaddai put the oil and let the oil become hot.by that time start making one set of chakuli .for this you have to put the small portion of chakli dough in the chakli maker keeping one star shape mould in it.press the maker and try to make chakli shapes.

I do this chakuli on kitchen counter , remove it flat ladle and start putting one by one in the hot oil.according to your kaddai size ,you have to take oil and according to that only you have to no of chakuli at a time.

fry the chakli in medium flame till the chali are cooked/the color of the chaklli becomes light red .the other way of finding when to remove chakli's from oil is when the bubbling of oil stops.
remove from oil and put it on plate having tissue paper on it,so that oil is absorbed by the paper.this is very good tea time snack.
you can store this in air tight container after it cools off.it stays for at least 5-10 days.

Comments

  1. Shilpa JoshinFebruary 28, 2011 at 11:20 AM

    This one looks pakka and tastes so too. Hats off to your patience. I love this snack. Everytime I see this in Indian store I think I will make it at home but it hasnt happened yet. Now am inspired!!!

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 7, 2013 at 10:52 PM

    hi i like ur recipe a lot but the problem in mine is that it doesnt come out well. when im turning the machine it comes out half and breaks in the middle what should i do?

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