Homemade Chakli Recipe | Home-Milled Rice & Urad Dal Flour | Festive Snacks

Chakli is one of those traditional festive snacks where the ingredients and technique make all the difference. For this batch, we're making everything from scratch — starting with rice and whole urad dal, roasting them gently and milling them into a fine flour at home. We bring the flour together with homemade butter, white sesame seeds, hing and salt, knead it into a workable dough, and shape the Chakli using a traditional hand press. Finally, we fry them in cold-pressed coconut oil until golden and crisp. There are a few important details in our process: • Rice is washed, soaked for an hour, drained and dried completely on a cloth. • Urad dal is roasted on a low flame until lightly golden, followed by the dried rice. • Both are cooled completely before milling into a fine flour. • Homemade butter is incorporated into the flour and checked using the traditional mutthi test. • Water is added gradually to achieve a firm but workable dough. • Chakli is shaped using a hand press and fried over medium flame until it stops bubbling and begins to sink to the bottom of the wok. In this video: 00:00 Introduction — Homemade Chakli 00:12 Washing and Soaking the Rice 00:22 Drying the Rice 00:31 Roasting Urad Dal and Rice 00:50 Cooling and Milling the Flour 01:04 Dough prep, Butter, & the Mutthi Test 01:31 The Right Dough Consistency 01:54 Shaping Chakli with the Hand Press 02:27 Frying to Golden Perfection 02:59 Cooling and Serving Ingredients 4 cups rice (Sona Masoori or dosa rice) 1 cup whole urad dal (urad gota) ½ cup homemade butter White sesame seeds, as needed Hing (asafoetida), to taste Salt, to taste Water, as needed for kneading Cold-pressed coconut oil, for frying At Homecook @ Homestead, we enjoy making traditional food from scratch — choosing our ingredients, preparing our own flours and keeping familiar food traditions alive in our kitchen. Grow more. Make more. Waste less. #Chakli #HomemadeChakli #ChakliRecipe #IndianSnacks #DiwaliSnacks #FestiveRecipes #MadeFromScratch #HomeMilledFlour #TraditionalSnacks #ButterMurukku #TeaTimeSnack #Snacks #DalChawalChakli #HomecookAtHomestead