Chikki

Name: Chikki
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup Peanut; 1/2 cup Sesame seed (white and black mix); 1/2 cup Sunflower seed (de-skinned one); 1/2 cup Roasted gram; 1/2 cup Almond (slice or chunks); 1/2 cup Cashew bits; 1/2 cup Desiccated coconut; 2 cup Sugar; 2 tbsp Ghee/clarified butter

Shrikripa @cook_13882505

Makara sankranti and Sesame/Til seed is very much associated with each other. Every year my kids look forward to have their favorite Chikki on this auspicious day. This time I wanted to make a different type by enhancing it's nutritional value by adding other ingredients too. Finally came up with this recipe.

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Shrikripa @cook_13882505

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Ingredients

1 cupPeanut
1/2 cupSesame seed (white and black mix)
1/2 cupSunflower seed (de-skinned one)
1/2 cupRoasted gram
1/2 cupAlmond (slice or chunks)
1/2 cupCashew bits
1/2 cupDesiccated coconut
2 cupSugar
2 tbspGhee/clarified butter

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Steps

1

Dry roast peanuts, remove outer skin and make halves.
-Now dry roast sesame seeds, Sunflower seeds, Roasted gram, almond chunks, and Cashew bits one by one and keep aside. For roasting you can use stove top method or microwave.
2

When it’s a little cool, add desiccated coconut and mix nicely. Keep it aside.Take one rolling pin and apply little ghee and keep aside.
3

Now we have to make caramel by adding sugar and ghee in a thick bottomed vessel/tawa. Keep this on a stove top, heat it until it attains liquid form and becomes light brown in colour. This is caramel. (Please refer to the below picture for stages to attain light brown colour)
4

Without wasting any time, mix in the nuts and spread this on a wooden plank or on a clean kitchen platform. Use ghee applied chapati rolling pin (belan) and spread this mixture nicely till it is uniformly flat.
5

Leave this for 2 minutes. Take one knife and mark, cut it into a desired shape. After it cools down completely you can store this in an airtight container.