Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, peanut chikki. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Peanut Chikki is the Indian version of Peanut Brittle. Ever since I can remember, I have been obsessed with chikki. I would wait for winters every year so that I could get to eat this peanut chikki.
Peanut chikki is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Peanut chikki is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have peanut chikki using 3 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Peanut chikki:
- Make ready 1 cup peanuts
- Get 3/4 cup Jaggery
- Get 1 tbsp ghee
Chikki is a traditional Indian sweet (brittle) generally made from nuts and jaggery/sugar. There are several different varieties of chikki in addition to the most common groundnut (peanut) chikki. Each variety of chikki is named after the ingredients used, which include puffed or roasted Bengal gram. Peanut chikki or peanut brittle is a delicious homemade candy.
Instructions to make Peanut chikki:
- Roast peanuts in a pan on medium flame for approx. 5-6 minutes. Stir constantly to prevent burning.
- Let roasted peanuts cool for 3-4 minutes. Remove it's skin while they are little warm and break them into halves.
- Grease surface of counter top or reverse side of a big plate and a rolling pin (belan) with ghee.
- Heat ghee in a heavy bottomed pan over low flame. Add jaggery and stir continuously on low to medium flame.
- When jaggery dissolves, stir and cook for approx. 4-5 minutes on low flame.
- Check consistency of dissolved jaggery by dropping a small drop of it in a bowl filled with water. If jaggery drop turns into a solid drop and sits at the bottom of bowl, then it is cooked otherwise cook it for some more time and repeat the check.
- Turn off flame and add peanut halves. Mix until all peanut halves are coated with dissolved jaggery.
- Pour mixture over previously greased surface.
- Quickly roll the mixture flat using rolling pin. Keep it’s thickness around 1/3-inch.
This recipe is super simple and Ginger adds a very nice tanginess to the chikki. Peanut Chikki (Groundnut Chikki, Peanut Brittle) is a healthy, delicious traditional candy made from peanuts and jaggery. It can be eaten alone or with snacks and is a perfect replacement for chocolates. Peanut chikki is a popular sweet that is prepared in South India for most festivals. Chikki is a popular South Indian sweet that is prepared with roasted peanuts and jaggery syrup.
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