Chakli is rice flour or mixed flour with a lentils based fried snack made with red chili powder, ginger paste, sesame seeds, and carom seeds. Chakli goes by many names like chakri, chakralu and murukku.
The flour for chakli, called bhajanee, is prepared from roasted grains, legumes, and spices. The ingredients include grains such as rice, wheat, bajra, and jowar, legumes such as chana, and urad and spices, most commonly coriander and cumin seeds. In Maharashtrian homes, chakli bhajni is made in large amounts and stored, which is then later used to make chakli. Readymade chakli bhajni flour is also available in the market. Here, I used the ready-made one.
Ingredients:
- K-pra chakli bhajni 500 gm
- Oil
- 1 tsp sesame seeds
- 1 tsp carom seeds
- 1 tsp red chili powder
Method:
- Take water 1:1 (1 cup water for 1 cup flour)
- Add 1 tsp oil to it and bring it to boil
- Once it starts boiling, add bhajni flour, red chili powder, ginger paste, carom seeds, and sesame seeds
- Mix well and let it steam for 2-3 minutes
- Turn off the stove and cover it
- Let it stand for 5 minutes
- Then take a small portion of steamed dough and start kneading to smooth dough. You can use a few tsp water if needed
- Before you start making chakli, heat 2 cups of oil in a deep-frying pan on medium flame
- While the oil is heating up, grease the chakli mold
- Use the single star plate of the mold to make chakli
- Place the dough into the mold and press the chakli maker to release the dough
- Shape the dough into spirals using circular hand motions on a plastic sheet (as shown in the video)
- Make more chaklis
- Check if oil is hot enough by dropping a small piece of dough in it
- If it comes up steadily and quickly, the oil is hot enough for frying
- Gently slide chaklis one by one into the hot oil
- Fry them on medium heat until golden brown and crispy
- Add 3-4 chaklis at a time without crowding the pan
- Fry all chaklis in batches
- Cool them completely before you store them in an airtight container
- Throw away the remaining oil. Do not reuse it.
- Enjoy the spicy and crunchy chaklis.
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