Peanut katli/Peanut barfi/Kadalai katli

Peanut katli is a delicious sweet recipe which taste similar to kaju katli. No doubt that kaju katli lover will for sure fall in love with this sweet. This is a simple easy to make recipe. The key factor for the success of this recipe is the consistency of sugar syrup. 

Preparation time	10mins
Cook time	10mins
Total time	20mins
Serve	15pieces
Cuisine	Indian
Type	Dessert
Author	Nivi Marshal

Ingredient(s)

Peanut	1cup
Sugar	½ cup
Water	¼ cup
Milk	1tsp
Ghee	1tbsp

• *1cup=250ml

How to prepare Peanut katli:

• Dry roast the peanut and remove the skin. Allow to cool completely and powder them in pulse mode.
• In a pan add sugar and water, then switch on the flame.
• Melt sugar in medium flame. Once it starts to melt add a tsp of milk to the sugar syrup inorder to remove impurities from the sugar.
• Meanwhile grease a plate in which you are planning to flat and piece the katli.
• Once sugar syrup starts to boil the impurities will float on the top and start to get collect on the sides of the pan. Remove them using strainer.
• Wait till the sugar syrup reaches one string consistency. Now low the flame and add the powdered peanut.
• Keep stirring and mix them in low flame till it gets thicken. Now add a tbsp of ghee and mix well. Allow the prepared mixture to become warm.
• Now knead with hands and transfer to greased plate immediately.
• Using a grease rolling pin spread the mixture to ¼" or ½" thickness. Piece them with knife in diamond shape and serve.

Tips:

• Powder the peanuts in batches. Don't overload the jar, which may lead to non uniform powdering and starts to release oil.
• Pulse the peanut for few seconds at regular interval to powder them.
• You can also use greased butter paper for spreading the peanut mixture.