Kadalai Mittai Recipe | Kadalai Urundai | Peanut Candy
Kadalai Urundai also called as Kadalai Mittai is a traditional candy made using peanuts and jaggery as main ingredients. Kadalai Mittai is healthy compared to the packed snacks and easy to make too. Learn to make Kadala Mittai or Peanut Candy the right way with step by step pictures and video.
Servings15 balls
Ingredients
- 1 cup peanuts
- 1/2 cup jaggery
- 1/4 cup water
- one tiny pinch salt
- 1/4 teaspoon cardamom powder
Instructions
- To a sauce pan add 1/2 cup jaggery along with 1/4 cup water. Heat it up.
- Boil well until jaggery melts completely. No need to check for consistency just let jaggery melt that is enough. Switch off, remove and set aside.
- Add 1 cup peanuts to a heavy bottomed kadai. Roast until golden transfer to a plate and set aside.
- Now to the same kadai strain and add the jaggery syrup.
- Let the syrup boil, add a tiny pinch of salt along with 1/4 teaspoon cardamom powder.
- Give a quick mix. Let the syrup boil.
- At one stage the syrup becomes frothy and thick check by adding it in water - the syrup should not dissolve, if you take and roll it will form a ball, now as you can see it is soft ball consistency.
- Cook for few more seconds and you can easily form hard ball like this - this is called hard ball consistency. If you drop it on a steel plate it will give a sharp 'tang' sound. This is the perfect stage so switch off.
- Add roasted peanuts.
- Mix it well quickly. Remove from flame.
- Grease your palms with ghee and shape them into small balls.
- Kadalai Urundai or Kadalai Mittai is ready!
- At the last it may be hard to roll so heat up the kadai so that the mixture loosens a bit, then shape them.
- Kadalai urundai is ready!
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Notes
You can use raw peanuts with skin or without skin. If it is with skin you need to roast and remove the skin then use it.
Keep a plate or bowl ready with little water to check the consistency.
Be quick after the hard ball consistency is reached. It will be very hot so be careful.
If you let it cool down for more time forming balls will be tough.
Keep rolling if you keep it in your palms you will feel the heat more so keep rolling fast.
Finally the mixture may be hardened so heat it up to loosen a bit then roll the remaining.
Rice flour can also be greased in your hands, it helps to bear the heat. But I personally feel the glossy finish will be missing when we use rice flour.
Stays crisp for about a week if stored in an airtight container.
The flame should be in low to low medium and not in high.
Nutrition Facts
Kadalai Mittai Recipe | Kadalai Urundai | Peanut Candy
Amount Per Serving (30 g)
Calories 98
Calories from Fat 54
% Daily Value*
Fat 6g9%
Saturated Fat 1g6%
Polyunsaturated Fat 2g
Monounsaturated Fat 3g
Sodium 3mg0%
Potassium 91mg3%
Carbohydrates 9g3%
Fiber 1g4%
Sugar 7g8%
Protein 3g6%
Calcium 15mg2%
Iron 1mg6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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