Ingredients
Method
- The preparations for making Aatho begins with finely chopping the dried coconut shell, kharek, pistachios, almonds, cashews, walnuts and apricots.
- If you want you can dry roast the khus-khus and magaz seeds
- Place a small pan on low flame, add two to three tablespoons ghee and fry the edible gum till it pops up.
- Once the fried edible gum cools down a little roughly crush it.
- In the same pan add the rest of the ghee and melt it.
- Turn off the flame.
- Take a large mixing bowl. First add the grated jaggery and pour the hot ghee on it.
- Mix till jaggery melts down. Now begin adding all the ingredients one at a time and mix well after each addition.
- Aatho is ready.
- Transfer the Aatho to an airtight container.
- The mix stays well at room temperature.
- Eat couple of spoonful after each feed or two bowls aday.
Notes
How finely you chop the dried fruits and nuts will depend on your preference. You can also chop it roughly in the food processor. In the trailing video you see my Bhabhi frying and roughly pounding the edible gum. And we also gave half the quantity of nuts a chop in food processor and rest were kept chunky to give that bite to Aatho.