Chikki is a very healthy and tasty traditional food in our country. They are usually made up of nuts and seeds along with jaggery or sugar. Home-made chikki is always preferred over commercially available chikki. Homemade ones are freshly prepared with good quality ingredients and they are free of liquid glucose, preservatives, artificial flavoring substances. Here are 13 healthy and tasty homemade chikki recipes, an ideal snack to meet your health goal.
What are the basic steps in homemade chikki recipes?
There are certain basic steps of chikki preparation.
Step-1: Select ingredients like nuts, seeds, dry fruits.
Step-2: Pre-preparation of ingredients like removing the skin (optional) and seeds (optional)
Step-3: Crushing of ingredients (if required)
Step-4: Dissolving required amounts of sugar or jaggery in little water to make a thick syrup
Step-5: Adding ingredients to sugar or jaggery solution and mixing.
Step-6: Cooking for a few minutes with care so that no burning takes place.
Step-7: Greasing a plate with ghee or oil, spreading the cooked mass uniformly and cooling it.
Step-8: Cutting the chikki into desired size and shape. Now your chikki is ready to serve.
Precautions to be taken during following chikki recipe at home
Do not use oil during roasting of seeds and / or nuts.
Stir continuously during roasting to avoid the risk of burning.
Do not use water during the grinding of seeds.
For getting a good taste of the chikki, only coarsely grind the nuts or seeds, do not make a smooth paste or fine powder out of it.
Use minimum water to dissolve sugar or jaggery and to avoid burning. Don’t use excess water which will adversely affect the taste of the recipe.
Throughout the cooking, use low to medium flame. Do not cook at high flame.
Stir occasionally during the preparation of chikki.
How long chikki can be stored?
Chikki can be stored on the kitchen shelf for a week or in the refrigerator for two weeks. They must be kept in an air-tight container.
Here, I like to suggest few healthy and tasty chikki recipes of which some are very common recipes that are popular throughout the country whereas there are certain less commonly used nutritious chikki recipes. You may try these recipes at your home with minimum time and the least effort.
Five Most Popular Chikki Recipes
Chikki Recipe-1: GroundnutChiki / Badamchikki / Badamtakti
Ingredients
Groundnuts: 70g
Jaggery: 30g
Method of Preparation
Remove the brown skin of freshly roasted groundnuts.
Dissolve the jaggery in little water. Add groundnut. Cook for a few minutes.
Grease oil in a plat and spread the cooked peanut, cool it and made chikki out of it.
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