Peanut Candy

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 4 cups peanuts, peeled
• 1/4 cup ghee
• 1 1/2 cups jaggery, powdered
• 1/2 coconut
• 1 teaspoon cardamom powder

Recipe

• 1 in a big kadai, add peanuts with skin to melted ghee on medium heat.
• 2 keep on stirring continuously with a spatula.
• 3 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.
• 4 rub the peanuts in a plate till all the skin comes off.
• 5 set aside in a plate.
• 6 slice the coconut into small thin square pieces.
• 7 in a kadai, add the jaggery with 1/2 cup water and cut coconut pieces.
• 8 keep a cup of water ready.
• 9 when the jaggery mix boils and starts thickening, add one tsp.
• 10 of jaggery mix to the cup of water.
• 11 the jaggery should not dissolve in water.
• 12 when you roll it into a ball, the jaggery should be soft.
• 13 add cardamom powder to the jaggery mix.
• 14 in a broad plate, place the cleaned peanuts and pour the jaggery mix over it little by little one ladle at a time.
• 15 mix them evenly with a thin edged spatula.
• 16 make lemon sized balls with your hand while it is still hot.
• 17 dip hands in water or rice flour periodically while making the candy.
• 18 the peanut balls start hardening as they cool down.
• 19 the same peanut-jaggery mixture can be poured into different moulds.
• 20 they are cut into small pieces according to requirement.
• 21 for garnishing, dried grated coconut is used which is dipped in various food colours.