Karadantu
Dense dry fruit and gram flour fudge bar from Gokak. Made with ghee, jaggery, nuts, and spices — Karnataka answer to chikki.
People also search this as karadant, gokak karadantu, gokak karadant.
Ingredients
- Ghee — 120 g
- Dry Coconut — 80 g
- raisins — 25 g
- badam — 40 g
- Dry Dates — 100 g
- nutmeg powder — 0.5 g
- gond — 40 g
- Cashew Nuts — 40 g
- Poppy Seeds (Gasagase) — 15 g
- Jaggery — 200 g
- Cardamom Powder — 2 g
Method
- Fry edible gum in hot ghee till it puffs up. Crush it.
- Fry cashews and almonds in a little ghee. Chop them.
- Dry roast grated dry coconut and poppy seeds till light brown.
- Chop dry dates finely.
- Melt jaggery with 2 tbsp water to a sticky syrup.
- Add everything with cardamom and nutmeg. Mix fast.
- Press into a greased plate and level the top.
- Cool for 30 minutes and cut into bars.
Common questions
- What is ಕರದಂತು in English?
- ಕರದಂತು is written Karadantu in English.
- How many calories in one plate of Karadantu?
- 425 kcal per plate.
- How much cooking time?
- 26 min — 15 min prep, 11 min cooking.