In a mixing bowl, add rice flour.

Now in a mixture jar, add roasted chana dal and grind it into fine powder. Sieve it and add it to rice flour.

then add besan (gram flour), white sesame seeds, cumin seeds, carom seeds (ajwain), hing, turmeric powder, Kashmiri red chilli powder, salt, and melted butter. Mix well.

Now add hot water gradually and knead the medium-stiff dough.

On a kitchen platform or chopping board, Place dough on it and make it smooth with a rolling pin or pestle for 5-7 min till it becomes pliable and the color turns a little lighter. You can alternatively knead it with your hands. This process helps to make perfect chakli. (Refer to video)

Now take a chakli machine with an attached star-shaped hole in a round disc.

Grease the chakli machine with little oil.

Add chakli dough to the machine and close the lid.

On a grease, steal plate move the chakli machine in a circular motion, first make straight strings of dough by twisting the handle and then form round chakli with your hand.

Join ends otherwise chakli will open while frying it.

Heat oil on medium flame. Put a small portion of dough into it, if it immediately comes to the surface without changing brown then the oil is ready for frying.

Add 3-4 chakli at a time in hot foil and deep fry them until crispy and golden brown.

Fry from both sides evenly and remove the kitchen paper towel to absorb extra oil.

Let chakli cook at room temperature and be ready to serve or store it in an air-tight container.