Chikki is an Indian sweet recipe. It is made with jaggery/ sugar, dry fruits, peanuts. Today we are here with an easy and innovative chocolate chikki recipe. You can prepare it with simple ingredients. Uploaded by admin on 13-Jan-2021.
Ingredients – 250gram peanuts 250gram gud (jaggery) 1tsp ghee 1/8 tsp baking soda 200 gram dark chocolate Pistachio flakes
Dry roast peanuts for 5-6 minutes on medium flame. Switch off the flame, allow to cool. Roughly crush peanuts and gently rub to remove the skin of peanuts. Sieve and remove the skin from peanuts. Keep aside clean peanuts. Add chopped jaggery in a pan. Cook on low flame, allow to melt, add ghee and cook till jaggery syrup start bubbling. For consistency add few drops of jaggery syrup in water, wait for few seconds, if sugar syrup will set in water and can break that piece easily, our jaggery syrup is ready. Add baking soda and mix, add clean and crushed peanuts in jaggery syrup, mix nicely. Grease a plate with ghee or oil. Or can use butter paper or parchment paper. Pour peanut jaggery mixture on parchment paper, flatten it, roll with a rolling pin. Do this step quickly. Cut in squares with a sharp knife immediately. Allow to cool and set for 10-15 minutes. Separate the pieces and keep aside. Melt chocolate in microwave for 30- 30 seconds or can melt in double boiler. Coat the peanut chikki pieces with melted chocolate and keep on a butter paper. Sprinkle pistachio flakes and keep in fridge for 10 minutes. Take the chikkis from fridge. Our tasty, innovative chocolate chikki is ready, store in an airtight container.
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