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Rice Flour Chekkalu
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Rice Flour Chekkalu Recipe, How to Make Rice Flour Chekkalu Appalu
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
40 mins
 
Rice Flour Chekkalu or Appalu is one of the famous Andhra snack.
Course: Snack
Cuisine: Andhra, Indian
Keyword: Rice Flour Chekkalu Recipe
Servings: 1 Medium Container
Calories: 480 kcal
Author: Uppada Lakshmi
Ingredients
  • Rice Flour – 3 cups
  • Soaked Channa dal - 1 cup
  • Tymol/ nuvvulu/ sesame seeds – 1 tbsp.
  • Groundnuts - 1 cup.
  • Curry Leaves sliced - 1 cup
  • Coriander leaves - 1 cup
  • Red chilly powder - 1/2 tbsp.
  • Turmeric powder - 1/4 tbsp.
  • Butter/Vanaspathi – a small block of a piece 50 gms.
  • Water - 1 glass
  • Oil - to deep fry.
Instructions
How to Make Rice Flour Chekkalu or Appalu:
  1. Sieve rice flour and transfer to a bowl.
  2. Add chana dal, tymol seeds, curry leaves, soaked chana dal, groundnuts, coriander leaves, turmeric powder and red chilly powder.
  3. Mix all ingredients and add small piece of butter to get soft dough.
  4. Add required amount of water and mix well to get soft dough.
  5. Beat dough so that flour absorbs water and becomes soft. Keep aside.
  6. Take polythene paper and put small lump of dough on it, press hard with your hand so that dough gets spread out like a chapati.
  7. Heat oil in a wide pan and drop them gently.
  8. Deep fry till they turn golden brown color.
Tip: once they are fried they float over oil, also remove excess oil while removing from oil.
  1. Rice Flour Chekkalu or Appalu gets crispy when cooled.
  2. We can store them for a month when stored in an airtight container.

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