Chakkuli / Murukku are a favourite snack of especially children. It is having a good combination with tea and coffee. The internet is filled with so many types of chakkuli /murukku recipes. The one I am discussing here is the one usually prepared in Konkani homes. It is made of raw rice and urad dal. You can replace raw rice with rice flour but need not want to compromise with the taste so have use raw rice. Chakkuli is a snack that will absorb less oil upon frying and also a snack that will stay for 3 to 5 months without loss of taste if kept in air tight containers.
Ingredients
You need
- 1 cup raw rice (1 ½ cup rice flour, unroasted)
- 1/4th cup urad dhal
- 1 tspn Chilly powder (or as per your spiciness level)
- ¼ tspn turmeric powder
- ½ tspn hing
- 1 tspn Sesame seeds (I have used white seeds)
- 2tbspns Oil
- Water for kneading
- Oil for deep frying
Method
Preparing the rice
Wash and soak the raw rice for 3 to4 hours. Drain all the water and powder it in a mixer. You will find some crumbs left out. To remove them sieve it. The flour would have passed through the pores of the sieve leaving the crumbs on the sieve. Take these crumbs and powder again. In the end you will get a fine powder.
Preparing the urad dal
Dry roast uradh dhal till light brown in colour and powder it.
Preparing the chakkli dough
Mix the rice flour, urad dhal flour, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, sesame seeds, hing, 2 tbspn oil and salt to a soft malleable dough using water.
Keep the dough for 10 to 15 minutes.
Now grease the inside of a chakli maker with oil. Fill it with batter and make chakkuli of your desired size.
In the mean time heat oil in a kadai/pan for deep frying. Gently slide the chakkuli’s in hot oil and fry then flipping in oil.
Remember to use medium to low flame. Roast till the chakkuli become crisp and cooked well.
Your Chakkuli / Murukku is ready to be served.
