Sweet Peanut

Ingredients:

• Crushed roasted peanuts-1 cup and little more for garnishing
• Sugar-1 cup
• Milk powder- 1/2 cup
• Clarified butter/ghee- 3 tbsp
• Water-1/4 cup
• Cinnamon powder-1/2 tsp
• Dessicated coconut powder,  and for garnishing

Method:

• Place a sauce pan on the stove.
• Add the sugar and water and let it boil until the sugar syrup comes to thick consistency.
• When the syrup comes to thick consistency, add the crushed roasted peanut powder.
• Keep stirring for about 3 minutes until lumps disappear.
• Add the ghee and stir again for about 2 minutes.
• Now add the milk powder and Cinnamon powder.  Keep stirring until the swirl from the bottom is frothy and the mix starts to harden.
• Keep a pan greased with ghee ready.
• Once you see the mix getting to leave lumps and bubble up pour the mix into the greased pan.
• Let it cool for about 20-30 minutes.
• Slit them to your desired shape with a greased knife  or you can shape them by using your palm
• Garnish them with Dessicated coconut powder and serve.

Note:

How to make crushed roasted peanut:

• Roast the peanuts on a very low flame.
• Keep stirring while roasting. The peanuts should start crackling and turn brownish.
• Turn off the gas. Let them get cold.
• Now remove the skins by rubbing between palms. Discard the skins.
• Powder the nuts in the grinder. The powder can be coarse to fine but make sure that it does not turn into a paste. 

How to check the consistency:

Take a wooden spoon and insert in the syrup. Watch out it is hot. Take it out and blow mildly and touch the syrup when it is tolerable to your fingers. Now bring the thumb and index finger and press and pull them apart. You will see threads forming. If the thread is thick it is dense consistency. If it is then like a needle it is light consistency.