Andhra pappu chakkalu, one my favorite snacks ever! These are rice flour based snacks that can be customized to suit anyone’s taste buds. Here I present you the version we love and make most often at home. Read on for ingredients and steps to prepare these.

Ingredients

• Rice flour – 4 cups
• Melted butter – 4 tbsp
• Curry leaf – 4 sprigs
• Senaga pappu/Bengal gram – 3 tbsp soaked for an hour
• Jeera – 2 tbsp
• Ginger – 2 inch knob
• Chillis – 4
• Salt – to taste
• Water – enough to make a dough
• Oil – for deep frying

Steps

• Soak bengal gram in water for about an hour before making the dough
• Melt butter if solid
• Grind the curry leaf, ginger and chillis into a coarse paste
• Mix rice flour, butter, soaked bengal gram, curry leaf – ginger – chillis paste, jeera, salt and water to make a semi-dry dough. Test for this is, if you pinch a small amount and try to flatten it, it should crack at the edges.
• Heat up oil
• Pinch off about 2 tbsp of dough and flatten on a plastic sheet or silicone baking sheet. These should be of medium thickness. Make a few of these.
• One the oil is hot, reduce the flame to medium and drop in a few raw chakkalu into the oil. Once they turn golden brown, turn to the other side and fry to golden brown.
• Remove to a plate to cool for a few minutes and store them in an airtight container.

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