Baked Murukku/Chakli

Diwali/Deepavali, 'the festival of lights' is just around the corner & I'm sure you all must be busy cleaning/shopping/ preparing sweets and savories, so am I 

Cleaning  ✓

Shopping  ✓

                          Cooking - just decided the menu

Last year for Diwali, the menu

(for sweets &savories) was

 sweet : Rava Ladoo, Besan Ladoo, eggless custard cookies

savory : Ribbon pakoda/murruku, mullu murukku

This year I'm planning to make 

sweet : Rava ladoo, Karachi halwa , Gulab jamun

savory : baked rice flour murukku  ✓

Planning to make some baked  potato chips too if time permits. I'm not very sure if its legit to make potato chips for Diwali.. But I'm thinking, why not?  Let me be the trend-setter. LOL

Ok not much time to chat today, got to go make all these goodies. So lemme quickly give you guys the recipe. 

Before that, did u notice that I'm baking the chaklis? we're gonna use just 1 tsp of oil guys!! And you won't believe, it turned out as good as the fried ones.. Very crispy n tasty... I'm never gonna deep-fry chaklis anymore! I suggest you guys to try this too 

INGREDIENTS

1 cup rice flour

1/2 cup yogurt

1 tsp red chili powder  

1 tsp oil

a pinch of asafoetida(hing)

salt to taste

METHOD

• Combine all the ingredients in a bowl, knead it into semi-soft dough using little water at a time.
• Pre-heat the oven to 350 F / 180 C .
• You will need a chakli/muruku maker with a 1- star attachment. refer here
• Insert the dough to the chakli maker and press out the dough in spirals on a baking tray. 
• Bake these chaklis in the oven for 20-25 mins, flipping the chaklis once after 12 mins.
• Let it cool and store it in a air-tight container.

TIPS

• You can also add some sesame seeds
• Every oven is different, keep an eye on chakli throughout. Some ovens might need 30-35 mins too.