Chakkalu / Tatte

Ingredients:
2 Cups - Rice Flour
2 Table Spoons - Butter
1 Table Spoon - Grated Ginger
4 - Green Chillies
10-15 - Curry Leaves
1 Table Spoons - Sesame Seeds
1 Tea Spoon - Jeera
1 Tea Spoon - Chilli Powder [Adjust per your taste]
2 Table spoons - ChanaDal
Salt Per your taste
Water
Oil for deep frying.

Procedure:
1. Soak chana dal for an hour.
2. Heat Oil on a medium flame.
3. Grind Ginger, Curry Leaves and Green Chillies coarsely.
4. Mix Rice flour, butter above paste, soaked chana dal, salt, chilli powder , jeera and sesame seeds.

5. Add little water and mix the dough.
  - Dont add too much of water otherwise chakkalu will absorb lot of oil.
  - Mix enough water that if you take some dough and make it into a ball and try to break it, it should break easily.

Chakkalu Dough

6. Make the dough into small balls (as shown) and press them flat using your fingers on a plastic paper.

Make the dough into small balls

Press the dough ball flat onto a plastic paper

7. You can press upto 8 - 10 balls onto plastic paper and fry them at once.
8. Fry them until they turn light golden color.