Bhajanichi Chakali – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Heat water in a pan.
• In a bowl, take chakali bhajani. Add red chilli powder, ajwain, sesame seeds, salt, and turmeric powder. Mix everything well.
• Add oil and mix it well with bhajani. The flour should be crumbly.
• Add boiling hot water. Mix well. Cover and give it a standing time of 10 minutes.
• Knead it into the dough. If you find the dough a bit dry, you can add hot water to it. The dough should be thick.
• Take a ball out of it. Make a roll of it and put it into chakali mold. Chakali mold has chakali disk in it.
• Cut wax paper into small pieces. You can put the chakali in oil easily with the help of wax paper.
• Press the dough well into the mold and make chakalis on wax paper.
• Seal the outer and inner end of the chakali well.
• Heat oil in a pan. The oil should not be too hot. Or the chakali remains raw inside.
• Fry the chakali on medium heat until it turns brown. Flip over after 3-4 minutes.
• Cook for 3-4 minutes from another side. While this chakalis are getting fried, prepare new chakalis from the mold.
• When the chakali starts getting reddish color to remove it from the oil.
• After removing from hot oil, the cooking process continues and the color of it changes in a while.
• Drop the next batch of chakali into hot oil and fry.
• Chakalis are already.