Mumbai,13.01.21-Food is may be the only universal thing that really has the power to bring families and people together. When I was a little kid, I used to help my mother in the kitchen. She would always make my favourite dishes. Watching her cooking and due to her blessings, I sharpened myself to try out new and exciting recipes. With time Cooking has become a passion for me. Cooking for me is an art full of creativity, where you explore your kitchen, mix your imagination and innovation with a twist to put together a delicious meal. I am Madhulika Vatsal presenting for you all some very amazing, delicious,yet very simple and easy recipes to win a lot of praise and make you feel overjoyed, proud and accomplished. So let's start cooking.

Peanut Gud Chikki

Ingredients –

250gram peanuts

250gram gud (jaggery)

1tsp ghee

1/8 tsp baking soda

Method –

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 our homemade crispy peanut jaggery chikki is ready.