Nalini'sKitchen: Mixed Nuts Brittle/Mixed Nuts Chikki

Entering the second week of Blogging Marathon 67th edition with 'Go nuts' as theme.Nuts are everyone's favorite and for the day 1,I decided to make chikki/brittle with mixed nuts.As we love the the famous Lonawala chikkis I tried to make it at home.The brittle/chikki came out super good and had couple of pieces before even clicking.The chikkis are so crunchy and addictive and my kids loved it to the core.Off to the recipe.....

Mixed Nuts Brittle/Mixed Nuts Chikki

Basic Information

Preparation time ~ 5 minutes
Cooking time ~ 10 minutes

Makes ~ 12-14 chikkis (depending on the size)

Ingredients

Ingredient	Quantity
Mixed nuts (almonds,cashews,peanuts and pistachios)	1.25 cups
Sugar	3/4 cup
Baking soda	a pinch
Ghee/nei	2 tsp

Method

Chop the almonds,cashews and pistachios and keep it aside.Heat a pan and toast the chopped nuts and remove it from the pan.Let it cool down.Meanwhile grease an aluminium foil or tray and a rolling pin with a tsp of ghee.

Coat the pan with the rest of the ghee and add the sugar on top of the ghee and keep it on a medium flame.

Let the sugar melts and slowly the sugar caramelizes and changes to a amber color.Now add in the baking soda and mix it well.

At this stage add in the nuts and give it a mix.Put off the flame and mix it well.Transfer the mixture to the greased surface and roll it with the rolling pin to the desired thickness.

Let it cool for a minute,now with a sharp knife or pizza wheel,mark the lines .After cooling break it into pieces.

Store in an air tight container

After adding the baking soda the sugar syrup becomes frothy then immediately the nuts needs to added and mixed.Otherwise it will be difficult to handle.
After adding the mixed nuts on the greased tray or foil,it needs to be rolled immediately.