Peanut chakki (moongfali panjiri )

Prep time - 20 mins
Cooking time - 30 mins
Complexity - Easy

Ingredients :-

• Peanuts - 200 gms 
• Sugar - 175 gms
• Water - Just enough to wet the sugar

Method :-

Take a heavy bottom pan and put it on medium heat. Roast peanuts in this pan until they are golden brown in colour. This process would not take more than 10 mins. Let peanuts cool down. Rub these peanuts with your hands so that brown cover is not there. You do not need to take out cover from all the peanuts.

Once roasted, put these peanuts into mixer and grind them. You do not need the mixture to be powder thin. You need it to be coarse ( if it becomes powdery then also its fine).

Meanwhile put sugar in heavy bottom pan and add water to it. Heat sugar and water on medium heat till sugar is properly dissolved in water and the mixture starts boiling.

 Add roasted peanut mixture to this sugar syrup. Mix properly and stir for another 10-15 mins. Grease a thali (You can use baking pans if not having thali) with butter or desi ghee.

Pour peanut sugar mixture into this thali and let it cool down for 10 mins.

Cut chakki into your desired shapes, remember you need to cut before its half set (Do not wait until chakki is properly cooled down otherwise it will be hard to cut it into pieces). I have seen my mom using a knife and cutting chakki into squares so I did the same. You can also use cookie cutter for different shape.

Once chakki is properly cooled down take all the pieces out with the help of knife. Peanut chakki is ready.

Happy janmasthmi .