Seeds Chikki
Seeds & Nuts Chikki or Brittle with healthy Sunflower & Pumpkin Seeds,Nuts and Palm Sugar or Jaggery.Delicious, easy to make healthy snack.
Ingredients
- ¾ Cup Mixed Seeds- Sunflower and Pumpkin Seeds
- ¼ Cup Almonds and Pista- chopped up
- ½ Cup Jaggery powder- packed in
- 2 tablespoon water
- 1 teaspoon ghee
- ¼ teaspoon cardamom powder(optional)
Instructions
- Toast the seeds in a pan on low flame while stirring occasionally for 10 minutes.Set aside. Repeat the same process with the nuts.
- Mix the nuts and seeds in a bowl and keep ready.Prepare a plate/flat surface by greasing the back of it with ghee.Keep the rolling pin and a piece of butter paper handy.
- Heat the ½ cup jaggery with water and cardamom powder on low heat in a pan till it starts to melt and becomes a syrup.
- Keep a bowl full of water to check the stage of the jaggery syrup.It should reach the hard ball stage.Hard ball stage is when a drop of the jaggery syrup, dropped in water, will turn into a ball and harden instantly.
- Strain the syrup over the nuts and seeds.Mix together.
- Working fast, before the mixture cools down.Take the mixture on the greased plate.Put the butter paper over it and flatten it using a rolling pin it to a thickness you want.
- Cut it while its still hot into squares or diamonds of required size.Let it cool.
- Once it hardens, store in a airtight container