Diwali Recipe - Chakli

Description:-

Diwali is a major festival in Indian Tradition.

It is celebrated with foodstuffs like the Chakli.

So, lets get on with the information!

Information:-

According to Wikipedia

Chakli is a savoury snack from India. It is a spiral shaped, pretzel-like snack with a spiked surface.

Chakli is typically made from flours of rice, bengal gram (chickpea) and black gram (udad daal). It has several variations, depending on the types and proportion of flours used. Murukku, a similar snack typically made without the Bengal gram flour, is also sometimes called "chakli".

Recipe:-

Ingredients

• 1 cup rice flour
• 1/2 cup gram flour
• 2.5 tbsp. oil
• 3/4 cup water
• 1/4 tsp. turmeric
• 1/2 tsp. carom/ajwain seeds
• 1/2 tsp. cumin seeds
• 1 tsp. red chili powder
• Pinch of asafoetida/hing 
• 1 tbsp. sesame seeds
• Salt as required
• Oil for frying

How to make

1.  Take rice and gram flour in a bowl.
2. Add carom seeds, sesame seeds, turmeric powder, cumin seeds, red chili powder, asafoetida and salt.
3. Mix everything with a spoon.
4. Heat oil in a bowl.
5. Add the hot oil to the flour mixture.
6. Mix oil and flour with your fingers.(ah! messy!)
7. Bring water to a boil.
8. Add hot water with the flour mixture and mix with spoon.
9. Add more water as required.
10. Knead and form a dough.
11. Cover the dough and let it rest for 30 minutes.
12. Take a chakli maker (image given below) and apply some water to it.
13. Fill the chakli maker with the dough.
14. Press the lid and move it in round to form a spiral form of the dough.
15. Make them on butter paper so that they are easy to remove.
16. Make them with a radius of approximately 3-4 centimeters.
17. Heat oil in a frying pan.
18. After the oil is heated, put the spiral dough, the chaklis, in the pan.
19. Fry them till they become golden brown.
20. Soak the oil of the chaklis on a tissue paper.
21. Serve plain or with Indian style tea.
22. Tips are given below in case of any misshapen.

Tips:-

1.  If the chakli breaks while forming circles, add 1 or 2 tbsp. of water and knead the dough again.
2. If you are not getting the proper shape, then the dough is too moist. Add some flour and knead it again.
3. To check the temperature of the oil, take a small piece of dough and put it in the pan. If it rises, the oil is hot, if it settles at bottom, then the oil is cold.
4. Taste the small piece of fried dough, if it is too hard, then add 1/2 tbsp. of oil to the rest of the dough and knead.
5. Take the first batch of the chakli, if it has absorbed oil, then add some rice flour to the rest of the dough.

 Note:-

We wish all of you a Happy Diwali and a prosperous life ahead!

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