Crunchy peanut chikki with jaggery is a popular Indian sweet. It is usually eaten during winter season and festival of Makar sankranti.Most westerners call it groundnut or peanut brittle. Most people know it as the Lonavala chikki recipe. Made very popular by the pit-stop joints while travelling from Mumbai to Pune. Ghats of Lonavala and Khandala and some praline for munching. Perfect timepass.
Some people call it singdana chiki / shengdana chikki or palli chikki / palli patti.Most people have eaten packets of maganlal chikki in mumbai and pune sold across all kirana stores. Peanuts are great for snacking. Make a bliss ball or a peanut butter ice cream. Simply air fry peanuts or just roast them with some spice mix. Groundnut chikki is very easy to make. The most important step to a brittle consistency is to check the drops of jaggery syrup in a bowl of water.Once confirmed, peanuts are added at the right stage. This step will get us a good chikki.
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how to make peanut chikki? (Video recipe)
Ingredients
- peanuts
- jaggery (you may use kohlapuri jaggery (light in colour) or the desi jaggery (dark in color), the color of the chikki will change based on the jaggery used. You can also combine 50% of each.
- oil/ghee
- cardamom powder
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How to make chikki ? step by step instructions
- Take blanched peanuts and coarsely grind them.
- Dry roast peanuts few minutes. Keep it aside.you can remove the peanut skin if you like.
- In a pan, heat ghee and add jaggery to it. Cook the jaggery on slow flame.
- Add cardamom powder and keep stirring constantly until the jaggery melts completely on medium heat
- To make the perfect peanut chikki we need to do a water test. Drop drop of jaggery syrup
in a small bowl of cold water to see if it crystalizes. Once it hardens ,it is ready to make chikki. (this is required to check the right consistency of the jaggery)
- Add the roasted peanut mixture to sticky jaggery syrup.
- Mix it well and roll it on a sheet with a rolling pin after covering with baking sheet.
- Make incisions with a sharp knife and cut roasted chikkee into pieces once it cools down.
Store it in an air tight container.
Homemade chikki recipe
Equipment
- frying pan
- baking sheet
- tray
Ingredients
- 1 cup peanuts/groundnuts without skin
- ¾ cup jaggery
- 1 tablespoon ghee or clarified butter You can use oil/vegan butter for vegan version
- 1 teaspoon cardamom powder
Instructions
- Pulse peanuts in a food processor to coarsely chop it.
- Dry roast crushed peanuts for 5 mins.
- Remove the peanuts.Keep it aside.
- Add ghee,jaggery. Mix on low flame.
- In bowl of water,add a drop of jaggery to check if it is brittle.
- Add cardamom,peanuts,switch off flame.Mix well.
- Spread mix on baking paper or a greased tray.Press evenly.
- Draw incisions.Break into desired shapes.
- Store in a dry jar.Serve fresh.
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Notes
FAQs
You can easily make chikki with jaggery, you just need to cook the jaggery to the right level as shown in the recipe above.
Each Indian traditional sweet held some nutrition advantage according to season.Unlike chocolates which are just sugar, traditional sweets had besan, atta seeds or nuts as a base. Also jaggery gave it iron. It also helps improve immunity naturally.It is heat inducing and helps you fight cold when winter sets in.If you like,you can use the same amount of sugar to make it.Usually Gujarati or Kolhapuri jaggery is used to make the sweet.
Trivia: It is also a traditional Diwali sweet,in Sindhi households. We make a wide variety of homemade chikki (lai).There are different types of chikki. Some common ones are til patti or sesame chikki, coconut chikki, puffed rice or murmura brittle, chana dal or bengal gram brittle or mix dry fruits (varo).Many communities like Marathi,Gujarati ,Punjabi make it in winter.It is easy.It also needs very little cooking,hence is very popular.You can store it at room temperature in dry jar.Kids love it and so do elders.
Variations
This gur ki patti is actually a traditional candy. You can make it with sugar also. Although traditionally, we use a spoonful of ghee but you can make it vegan by using any vegetable oil or coconut oil. Use jaggery or gud to provide natural sweetness in the brittle. You may use coconut sugar if you do not have jaggery.
Storage
Store it in an air tight container at room temperature.
Conclusion: Winter months calls for different varieties of Indian sweet candy a.k.a soft chikkis to keep warm be it nuts chikki or seedy til chikki. This perfect snack is full of health benefits not just sugar syrup.
YanoGovender says
Love the recipe