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Chitale Bandhu · India

Dryfruit & Gulkand Chikki

Pune's Chitale Bandhu folds gulkand into a dry-fruit chikki. Brittle crunch, then a waft of rose.

₹100

Available in India

Type
Confectionery · 112 g (4 pieces)
Origin
India
Flavour
FloralNuttySweetCrunchy
Rarity
4/5
Rare: small-batch, regional or few stockists How we score

Rarity is our editors’ score for how hard something is to find in the US and how unusual it is to make: availability (supermarket, specialty shop or maker only), production (small-batch, seasonal, foraged) and how unusual the ingredient or method is.

  1. 1 Familiar twist: easy to find, unusual flavour
  2. 2 Specialty: good grocers and online
  3. 3 Uncommon: mostly from the maker or specialty shops
  4. 4 Rare: small-batch, regional or few stockists
  5. 5 Very rare: tiny batches, foraged or one of a kind

What it tastes like

Nutty crunch with jammy, floral rose sweetness from the gulkand.

Why it’s rare

Chikki is usually peanut and jaggery; this one swaps in dry fruits and gulkand, the sun-cured rose-petal preserve from paan.

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