Almond Brittle (Badam ki chikki)

This recipe is quick yet very complicated. It is extremely easy to mess up while caramelizing the sugar. After failing couple of times while caramelizing the sugar, I finally found a recipe to make it consistently (most of the times!) It surely brings back the memories of "chikki" (Peanut brittle).

Ingredients:
1 cup slivered almonds (I get roasted slivered almonds from Trader Joe's)
1 cup sugar ( I used brown)
2 tablespoon butter

- Preheat oven to 325 F
- Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper (Parchment paper is the best gift you can buy for yourself for baking purposes! No sticking and super easy cleaning)
- Add sugar in a saute pan at medium heat. Stir continuously for approximately 4 minutes until sugar melts and caramelizes with golden brown color. Be careful to stop as soon as sugar caramelizes otherwise you may get a burnt taste. You also have to make sure that sugar caramelizes otherwise it will have taste of sugar crystal and can be difficult to make it crisp
- Add 2 tbsp butter to the above mixture and whisk together until sauce like consistency (~ a minute or so)
- Switch off the gas and add almonds to the caramelized sugar and mix properly
- Spread evenly in a thin layer with spatula on the baking sheet
- Place the baking sheet in oven  for ten minutes until the nuts spread out into a flat sheet
- Remove from oven and let it cool. Break it into small pieces
- You can make this with mixture of nuts or any other type of nuts