Groundnut Chikki / Groundnut Brittle Step by Step Recipe.
You can cook Groundnut Chikki / Groundnut Brittle Step by Step Recipe using 4 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Groundnut Chikki / Groundnut Brittle Step by Step Recipe
- Prepare of Peanuts groundnuts /.
- You need of jaggery Grated.
- You need of Water.
- You need of butter ghee Clarified /.
Groundnut Chikki / Groundnut Brittle Step by Step Recipe instructions
- Take a heavy bottom kadhai or a non –stick pan, heat it. Once hot; reduce the heat to medium and dry roast (no oil) the groundnuts until crisp for about 12-15 minutes. Set aside to cool for 20 minutes and gently remove the skin of the peanuts.Grate the jaggery or gur and set aside..
- Once the skin is removed and cooled, coarsely ground the peanuts, make sure that the piece are large and not very small. If you wish you can make the chikki/brittle keeping the groundnuts in their original size..
- Generously grease a steelthali / tray or plate with oil / ghee and keep it ready..
- Take another thick bottom pan or a non stick pan, add to it 1 cup packed grated jaggery along with 1 tbsp of clarified butter /ghee and 1 tbsp of water..
- Add the grated jaggery in a hot non stick pan.
- Add 1 tbsp pf water and 1 tbsp of ghee/clarified butter.
- Melt the jaggery on low-medium heat.
- This is how it will look when it starts to boil.
- Boil on a low heat for 10 – 12 minutes (stir continuously) until thickens to form thick syrup..
- To test the syrup is ready, drop a teaspoon of hotjaggerysyrup in cold water. If it forms a jaggeryball, then the syrup is ready. If it’s not ready, then it won’t form a ball and you will see that the jaggery has diluted in the water..
- Once it’s confirmed that the jaggery had reached the correct stage of the syrup mix dry roasted peanuts; mix until the groundnuts are well combined withjaggery..
- Mix the groundnuts int he jaggery.
- Remove from heat immediately, spread this groundnut–jaggerymixture into the greased steelthali / plateand spread it evenly..
- Cut into desired shape and size when it is just about to set and leave it to cool for half an hour..
- Make desired shape and size when hot.
- Do not try to remove pieces /chikkisfrom plate when it is hot as they will break..
- Once cooled remove carefully, store in an airtight container..