Chakli

This is a snack which can be taken during coffee time/tea time. In order to prepare this you need chakli tool.

Ingredients :

1. Rice Flour - 1 cup
2. Chana dalia split powder - 1/2 cup
3. Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
4. Cumin Seeds/ Jeera - 1 tsp 
5. Ajwain seeds - 1 tsp
6. Salt to taste
7. Oil - 1/2 liter

Method :

• Add rice flour,chana dalia split powder,salt,chilly powder,cumin seeds with 1tsp of hot oil into a bowl.
• Mix these with little water and make a stiff dough. Now chakli dough is ready.

• Load this dough into the chakli tool/ chakli maker.

• Heat oil in the pan, test it whether oil is hot or not by adding little amount of dough into the hot oil and makes sure the flame is in medium.
• If you are comfortable in frying hot oil then you can add dough into the hot oil directly otherwise first press the dough through the hole of chakli maker onto a plastic sheet and later transfer it to the pan containing hot oil.
• Press the dough using chakli maker through the hole on bottom of the chakli maker, so that the dough comes out in a shape into the hot oil directly.
• Keep turning it around till chakli will be light brown in color.

• Once the chakli is light brown in color remove them from oil and put those into napkin so that it will absorb extra oil from chakli.