Peanut Chikki, known as Gajak in Hindi, is a delightful Indian winter treat consisting of a crispy and crunchy Peanut Brittle snack. This recipe utilises just two primary ingredients – peanuts (or groundnuts) and jaggery.
Dishes made of jaggery are one of the most common traditional dishes served on Lohri. Jaggry is used as a sweetener instead of sugar to make pudding with loads of butter and tastes quite delicious.
This set of munchies is everyone's favourite. Til (sesame seeds) are combined with jaggery to make sweets which are eaten along with gajjak and rewari, which are a kind of crisp sweets.
Rice porridge is consumed during Lohri as it is a festival associated with the harvesting of crops. The lentil rice porridge is made not only on Lohri but on Makar Sankranti and Pongal as well.
Loved by all, popcorn and peanuts are one of the easiest-made Lohri dishes. Not only do people munch on these while enjoying the Lohri bonfire, but also pop them into the fire as a form of offering.
The BJP leader who thrice became India’s prime minister after the events of Dec 6 1992, is not known to be as directly involved with these events. But his speech in Lucknow a day before, in which he called for ‘flattening of the surface’ at the site of Ram Janmabhoomi, is widely interpreted as his assent for the events that followed in Ayodhya a day later.