The winter season is no less than a festival for food lovers. In this season, people eat everything from paratha to carrot halwa with great gusto. Today we have brought for you a wonderful recipe for the winter season. If you like sweet food then you can make peanut and jaggery chikki at home. These days the market is filled with Gajak, Jaggery Papdi or Chikki. It also gives warmth to your body and this jaggery chikki tastes amazing. Jaggery Chikki is also liked very much by children as well as adults. In such a situation, if you are also thinking of making it at home, then today we will tell you an easy method of making jaggery and peanut chikki.
Ingredients for making jaggery and peanut chikki:
One cup of peanuts, one cup of small pieces of jaggery, two spoons of ghee.
Recipe to make jaggery and peanut chikki
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First step: First of all, keep the pan on gas and then fry the peanuts well. When the peanuts cool down, remove all their peels. Now keep the unpeeled peanuts in a vessel and keep them aside.
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Second step: Now add jaggery and ghee in a vessel or pan and mix it well. Now stir the jaggery continuously and let it melt well on low flame. If there are big pieces of jaggery then break them with a spoon and keep stirring. When all the jaggery melts well, keep stirring it again for 2 minutes. To check whether the jaggery syrup is made properly or not, take water in a bowl and add one to two drops of syrup in it.
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Third step: If the jaggery solidifies then the syrup is ready. If this is not happening then stir the jaggery for some more time. Now add peanuts to jaggery and mix well. Put some ghee in a vessel, grease it and add the mixed ingredients in it. Pour the jaggery mixture on the vessel and spread it thinly. Now apply ghee on the rolling pin and roll the chikki. When the chikki cools down, cut it as per your wish and keep it aside.
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