Roasted chana dal chikki recipe
Chikki is good way to pep your energy.Make it from nuts,lentils,coconut or seeds. Adding jaggery makes it healthy and rich in iron too.
Servings: 12
Equipment
- frying pan
Ingredients
- 1 ⅓ cup roasted bengal gram or chutney dal
- ¼ cup sugar replace sugar by jaggery if required
- ¼ cup jaggery
- 1 tablespoon ghee or clarified butter Use oil for dairy free/vegan option
- 1 teaspoon cardamom powder
Instructions
Cook puffed chana dal chikki in a pan
- Dry roast chutney dal in a heavy bottomed pan for 2 minutes.Keep it aside.
- In a heavy bottom pan, add ghee and sugar so that it starts to melt.
- Add jaggery and cook for 2 minutes on low flame,till it forms a homogeneous mixture
- Keep stirring on a medium flame till sugar gets caramelized and you get a boil.
- Drop few droplets of mix in bowl of water, if it crystalizes, then its ready.
- Add cardamom powder to it along with roasted chutney dal and turn off the heat.
Cook puffed chana dal chikki in air fryer
- In a preheated air fryer,roast the puffed chana dal for 5 minutes at 150C|300 f.Keep it aside.In a metal bowl, take the jaggery with cardamom powder and spray oil on top of jaggery.
- In a preheated air fryer, cook the jaggery for 8-10 minutes at 150C,once done mix it with a sptaula, if you find that it is still not melted, then cook for 1-2 minutes more.
- Add the roasted chana dal to the melted jaggery.Mix it well, if the mixture starts to set, you can cook for a 1-2 minutes in air fryer, this will help it mix better
Rolling the chikki
- Pour the chikki mixture on a greased plate/baking sheet and roll with a rolling pin to even it.
- While it is still warm cut 1' squares incisions and let it cool.
- Break into pieces once it cools off
- Store brittle in a airtight container.