Lonavala chikki is an Indian sweet named after Lonavala, a town in Pune district of Maharashtra India.[1] It is a type of chikki or guddani, a confection made from jaggery, ground nuts and ghee. The product was sold by Maganlal Agarwal from his sweet meat shop in Lonavala, and packaged by railway authorities and sold to train travellers between Lonavala and Mumbai. Encouraged by this, Agarwal renamed the product "Maganlal chikki", and it later became and continues to be called Lonavala chikki.[2][3][4]
Another source attributes Bhimraj Agarwal with having invented it as guddani that he sold to workers who laid the railway tracks along the Khandala ghat.[4] The confection has been described as "hard, brittle and crisp, light brown in colour with a definite gloss",[5] also as a "nutty nougat confectionery."[6]
Geographical indication edit
A 2010 news story reports of attempts to obtain Geographical Indication registration for the chikki.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b "13 products have potential for GI registration - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
- ^ "In search of Lonavala Chikki". The Hindu. 7 July 2012. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
- ^ "Quiz is toast of I-Day for many". The Hindu. 16 August 2012. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
- ^ a b "A sticky affair: Lonavala's chikki industry - Mumbai Mirror -". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
- ^ (India), Central Food Technological Research Institute (1 January 1973). Annual Report - Central Food Technological Research Institute. Central Food Technological Research Institute.
- ^ Majumdar, Sumit K. (24 May 2012). India's Late, Late Industrial Revolution: Democratizing Entrepreneurship. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107015005.