Oats and nuts Brittle /Indian style super energy bar/ Oats and nuts chikki
Recipe type: Snacking
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Serves: 20 piece
Crispy thin energy bars made out of jaggery with oats and nuts.
Ingredients
Roasted Oats - ½ cup
Roasted mixed nuts - ½ cup
Jaggery - 1 cup (preferably jaggery but you can use brown sugar or sugar instead)
Sesame seed (optional)
Aluminium foil
Rolling pin
cooking spray or oil to coat the foil
Instructions
Dry roast oats and nuts in the oven at 350* for 10-15 minutes. But keep an eye on it to prevent from burning. Alternately you can roast oats and nuts in a tawa on stovetop (gas).
Chop nuts into small size or you can coarsely grind them on pulse mode.
Apply little bit of oil or cooking spray to the aluminium foil and rolling pin. keep a small bowl full of water ready near you.
Take a pan and switch on the gas on medium flame. Add jaggery into it. Stir the mixture until jaggery melts. When it comes to fully liquid stage and changing its color from light to little bit dark at that time turn of the gas. Add oats and nuts and if you want you can add sesame seed to the jaggery mixture.
Add oats, nuts and jaggery mixture to the aluminium foil. Wet your hands a bit with water. Now here you need to work very fast, tap a bit on a mixture and make a ball or half dome shape and start rolling it very thin. You can pat the mixture while rolling if it is falling apart.
Once it is cool down completely break it into the size you want.
Notes
You can make this bar/chikki by using roasted sesame seed, roasted peanuts or roasted mix nuts like almond, walnut, pistachio, cashew etc...
You have to be very quick while rolling mixture ball to make it thin.
You can make it little thich too if you want to, I prefer the thinner version.
If you are having allergy with gluten then check for the gluten free oats label.
Recipe by Cooking Therapist at https://cookingtherapist.com/oats-nuts-brittle-indian-style-super-energy-bar-oats-nuts-chikki/