Chikki Machine

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Chikki is a traditional Indian sweet (brittle) generally made from nuts and jaggery/sugar. There are several different varieties of chikki in addition to the most common groundnut (peanut) chikki.Generally, chikki making units are of small or home scales units to produce from 500 kg/day to 5000 kg/day or more. Here, it is proposed to produce 300 kg/hr. chikki on semi-automatic line where cooking is manual whereas rolling, sheeting, cutting and packing operations are automatic on indigenous machinery.The chikki has a shelf-life of 3 months. Sesame chikki is made of sesame seeds, jaggery and ghee. It is extremely nutritious and tasty.This is certainly true of other candies, but chikkis likely originated in 19th century Lonavla, a hill station near Mumbai, when an enterprising candy shop owner named Maganlal Agarwal invented a sweet named gud dani, a combination of jaggery, peanuts, and ghee, Lonavala chikki is an Indian sweet named after Lonavala, a town in Pune district of Maharashtra India. It is a type of chikki or guddani, a confection made from jaggery, ground nuts and ghee.