Peanut Chikki
Peanuts contain many benefits for the brain. It boost memory, strengthen cognition, protect against cognitive disease, decline and more. Where as jaggery is rich in Iron.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Peanuts level the cup
- 1 tbsp Water
- 150 grams Jaggery
- 1 tsp Coconut oil or ghee
Instructions
- Preparation for peanut chikki:
- Roast peanuts on a medium flame stirring often until deep golden and aromatic.
- To check, remove the skin and look for golden color on the nut.
- Cool and deskin them, and to remove the skin easily wrap in a clean cloth. Take a cup and gently rub the nuts with the base of the cup.
- Transfer them to the place and crush the nuts with the base of the cup for 2-3 minutes.
- Grease a steel plate with little oil or ghee and set this aside. Also grease a rolling pin or the base of a cup to level the hot chikki mixture.
- How to make chikki:
- Grate the jaggery and add to a heavy bottom pan. Pour just 1 tablespoon of water. Begin to dissolve on low flame.
- When dissolved completely, if you find any impurities, then pass it through a coffee filter.
- If needed you can also pour one more tablespoon of water. Add ghee or oil and mix.
- Boil the jaggery syrup until it reaches a hard ball brittle consistency and lower the flame completely.
- To check hard ball brittle consistency, drop little jaggery syrup to the bowl of water. It should become hard immediately.
- Remove and break it, the jaggery piece must break to pieces without getting sticky. The broken piece should be like a candy and it should not be soft.
- If you cook past this stage you will have broken pieces of chikki or burnt jaggery. So turn off the flame.
- Add the peanuts and mix well.
- Quickly pour this to the steel plate, with the help of spatula shape it to rectangle.
- Roll the mixture with the help of rolling pin evenly. You should be fast as within a minute it will set. Ten cut into pieces when it is still slightly hot.
- Cool completely and break the peanut chikki to pieces.
Notes
Storage: Store in a air tight jar for 10-15 days.
