Peanut Candy
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- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 4 cups peanuts, peeled
- 1⁄4 cup ghee
- 1 1⁄2 cups jaggery, powdered
- 1⁄2 coconut
- 1 teaspoon cardamom powder
directions
- In a big kadai, add peanuts with skin to melted ghee on medium heat.
- Keep on stirring continuously with a spatula.
- When the peanuts start turning reddish, test one of them to see whether the skin can be removed by pressing with your thumb, remove from fire.
- Rub the peanuts in a plate till all the skin comes off.
- Set aside in a plate.
- Slice the coconut into small thin square pieces.
- In a kadai, add the jaggery with 1/2 cup water and cut coconut pieces.
- Keep a cup of water ready.
- When the jaggery mix boils and starts thickening, add one tsp.
- of jaggery mix to the cup of water.
- The jaggery should not dissolve in water.
- When you roll it into a ball, the jaggery should be soft.
- Add cardamom powder to the jaggery mix.
- In a broad plate, place the cleaned peanuts and pour the jaggery mix over it little by little one ladle at a time.
- Mix them evenly with a thin edged spatula.
- Make lemon sized balls with your hand while it is still hot.
- Dip hands in water or rice flour periodically while making the candy.
- The peanut balls start hardening as they cool down.
- The same peanut-jaggery mixture can be poured into different moulds.
- They are cut into small pieces according to requirement.
- For garnishing, dried grated coconut is used which is dipped in various food colours.
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Nice to know peanuts are good for lowering cholesterol. I thought it was the other way around and was keeping peanuts hidden from my husband. Almonds and walnuts are known to be good for lowering cholesterol, but I was unaware about peanuts. You dont mention if the peanuts used are raw or roasted, salted or plain
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