Peanut Chikki
From sudha04 13 years ago
- 20-30 mins to make
- Serves 4
Chikki is a ready-to-eat brittle Indian sweet generally made from groundnuts and jaggery/sugar. Besides peanuts, you can use any other nut (or a combination of them) you like, to make Chikki.
Ingredients
- 11/2 cups peanuts(skinned and cracked) shopping list
- 1 cup sugar shopping list
- 2 tsp butter shopping list
- 2-3 pinch salt shopping list
- 2-3 pinch cardamom powder shopping list
How to make it
- Heat butter in a pan. When the butter melts add sugar and mix it well.
- Keep it in a medium heat till sugar starts to melt. Lower the flame and keep on stirring the mixture.
- Once all the sugar is melted, add salt and mix well.
- Bring the mixture to boil, add cardamom powder and peanuts.
- Mix it well and let it boil for a minute.
- spread silver foil on a flat dish.
- Turn off the heat and pour this mixture on the silver foil, spread it evenly.
- Allow it to cool down. Once it becomes brittle, take it out from the foil and break into pieces.
- sprinkle or toss it with some flour to avoid stickiness.
- Store it in an air tight container.
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