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Kadalai Urundai / Kadalai Mithai (Mittai) / Verkadalai Urundai / Peanuts Jaggery Balls – Karthigai Deepam Recipes

November 16, 2013 By Aarthi 11 Comments

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Do you love peanut chikki, i love it a lot. After lunch i feel like having something sweet, chikki was my saviour those days. This is not chikki, but a different form of that. Usually chikki is made of sugar and this is made from jaggery. I love both the version a lot.


The crusial thing is making the syrup. It has to be done right or else you wont beable to make balls from it. If the syrup is not perfect, then the balls will be chewy. So make sure you got the syrup done perfectly. So try this and let me know how it turns out

Preparation Time : 15 mins
Cooking Time : 30 mins
Makes : 20 to 25 balls


Ingredients:

Peanuts / Verkadalai – 2 cup
Jaggery / Sarkkarai / Vellam – 1 cup
Water – 1/2 cup
Oil or Ghee to grease hands (Some use Rice flour too)


Method:

Dry roast peanuts for 10 to 12 mins on low heat till it turns nutty. If you are using roasted peanuts, then roast it for 3 to 4 mins on a dry pan. Now remove them to a steel plate and let them cool.

Take jaggery in a thick bottom kadai. Pour over some water and mix it up. When it is melted, strain it through a sieve.

Now pour this water back into a kadai and boil it up. Let it boil on a medium flame for 10 mins or so till it gets thick and reaches hard ball stage.(Refer Notes)

At this point, turn off the stove and add peanuts, mix well.

Pour this into another bowl and allow it to cool a little.

Now grease your hand with ghee or oil. Take small portion of peanuts, form that into rounds. Arrange this in a plate.

Let it cool down. Store this in air tight container for a week. 


Notes: 

1)If you pour a spoonful of syrup in a plate of cold water, you will be able to grab that and form into a soft ball, This is soft ball stage, if you add peanuts at this point, then the ball will be chewy. If you reach soft ball stage watch the syrup carefully, because it will turn into hard ball very soon. After a min a or so, pour some syrup in a plate of water, now you will be able to take the syrup and form it into a hard ball. This is the perfect stage for this kadalai urundai.

2)Roasting peanuts is important. Even if it is roasted peanuts, you have to roast it for some minute to make it even more nuttier.

3)This ball will be little soft when you roll it. It will turn hard as it cools down.

4)Form balls when the mixture is still hot ot warm.

5) If the mixture cools down, then you will not be able to shape ladoos. At this point heat the mix on a low heat for few seconds. The heat will melt the jaggery a little. Now you will be able to form balls.

Pictorial:

Take all the ingredients
Dry roast peanuts..I forgot to take pics,
so this is from another post
Take jaggery in a kadai
Add some water
Mix it up till dissolved
Strain it
Look at the sediments
Filtered jaggery syrup
Pour the jaggery syrup in a kadai
Boil it up
let it keep boiling
Let it boil
look at the jaggery syrup trasformation
Keep an eye on it
Pour some syrup in a plate of water
You could grab and make it into a hard ball
(read recipe method)
Add peanuts into the syrup
mix well
transfer that to another bowl
grease your hands
take some of that
shape into balls
done
Enjoy

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About Aarthi

Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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  1. Books and Manuals

    November 19, 2013 at 3:03 am

    I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often..

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  2. Thasneem Calicut

    December 5, 2013 at 7:57 am

    I think I must comment because I was searching a good guidance to prepare peanut ball. From january 1st week I will introduce it to the market. It may be a first turn in my own manufacturing and sales future.. Thanks alot…
    Thasneem
    Kerala, calicut

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  3. Ritu

    September 4, 2014 at 2:33 am

    I tried this recipe today.Everything seemed to be coming up nice but at the end I could not form it into balls.Now I'm left with jaggery coated peanuts.

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  4. Aarthi

    September 5, 2014 at 3:47 am

    @RituYou have over cooked the jaggery so it has crystalized so you couldn't for balls.

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  5. Ritu

    September 13, 2014 at 10:20 am

    Thanks Aarthi 🙂

    Reply
  6. Kavitha Rajkumar

    September 24, 2014 at 11:31 am

    Wonderful description of each and every recipe with pictures too is a big plus of urs.. So easy to understand from pics. Thanx Aarthi ..

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  7. Durairaj Muthiah

    January 28, 2015 at 8:30 am

    hmm yummyyyy.. i love this kadalaimittai.. as i am an kovilpattian, i eat this kadalaimittai daily. Now i am in Chennai and i buy it from http://www.kadalaimittai.com It is really very superb..

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  8. Anonymous

    March 5, 2015 at 9:45 am

    Wow I want to grap it. Super

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  9. Anonymous

    March 31, 2015 at 7:09 am

    Nirmala
    Suuuuuuuuuuperrrrrrrr

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  10. Anonymous

    March 31, 2015 at 7:10 am

    Suuuuuuuuuuperrrrrrrr arthi

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  11. Anonymous

    August 18, 2016 at 1:51 pm

    Thanks for the recipe. The peanut urundai became chewy. what could be wrong?? and When I break open the balls, the jaggery comes off like threads 🙁

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