Jain Recipes - Chikki

(1) Ground Nut Chikki
Ingredients : 500 grams groundnut, 200 grams brown sugar, 100 grams sugar, 2-3 tbsp. Ghee.
Preparation : Roast groundnut and remove its skin. In a frying pan take Brown Sugar & Mix Sugar. Add a little water and boil the mixture. When it attains chikki like consistency, put a drop of consistency in water and check, if it is hard. Mix groundnut. Mix well & pour in a greased thali. Cut into pieces & fill in the container.

(2) Fried Rice Chikki
Ingredients : 250 grams fried rice, Add 1 cup of Brown Sugar and 1/4 Cup Ghee.
Preparation : Roast fried rice in a pan for 10 minutes. In a frying pan take brown sugar and heat. When it melts and bubbles comes out add ghee & stir for 5 minutes. Add fried rice. Mix well. Grease a thali. Pour the contents in the pot to a thick layer & press. When cool cut into pieces.
Note : you can make ladus out of it.

(3) Coconut Chikki
Ingredients : 400 grams dry grated coconut, 150 grams brown sugar, 150 grams sugar, 3 spoons ghee.
Preparation : Roast grated coconut in 1 tbsp. ghee. In a frying pan take brown sugar & Mix sugar. Add a little water and boil the mixture. When it attains chikki like consistency, put a drop of consistency in water & check, if it is hard. Mix coconut. Mix well and pour in a greased thali. Cut into pieces & serve.

(4) Date Chikki
Ingredients : 1/2 kilo dries date, 11/2 quart milk, 300 grams mava (ricotta cheese), 3 cups sugar, 1-cup ghee, 100 grams dry, 50 grams pistachio, 100 grams almond, 5 tbsp. Pepper powder, 10 grams cardamom, 10 grams mace, 5 cloves, 1 nutmeg.
Preparation : Take dry dates, remove the seeds and make into powder, shift the date’s powder. Make almond, pistachio, cardamom, mace, cloves and nutmeg into powder. In frying pan take milk and mix dry dates powder. Boil the mixture on a low heat, till it thickens. Then add grated mava (ricota cheese) & ghee & roast till brown in color. In another pot take sugar & add water till it sinks. Boil the syrup to 2 tars. Add the date and mava (ricotta cheese) and mix. Add dry- fruit powder, dry powder & mix well. Pour in a greased thali, press it & add ghee over it. When cool cut into pieces and serve.

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