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Thursday, November 14, 2024  
11 Jumada Al-Awwal 1446  

Recipe of the day: Kaju ki barfi

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Ingredients

  • Cashew nuts 1 cup
  • Sugar ½ cup
  • Water ¼ cup
  • Silver paper for garnish

Cooking Directions

  1. Put cashew in food processor and grind to a semi fine powder.
  2. Add sugar and water in a pan and boil; stir until sugar melts completely.
  3. Check the consistency by pouring a few drops of syrup in a little water, if it does not dissolve in water then this is the right consistency.
  4. Now transfer cashew powder in sugar syrup and cook until form a thick rolling mixture. It should be flexible dough, not dry or hard.
  5. When it is still warm, knead it well until smooth; don’t scrap mixture from the sides of pan as it will hard the dough.
  6. If the dough becomes hard, add ½ tsp melted ghee/butter.
  7. Now place a butter paper on work surface then shift dough on it and cover it another butter paper piece and roll out dough with rolling pin about ¼ inches thick.
  8. Remove top butter paper and cut into diamonds shape. Garnish with silver paper.
  9. Serve or store in air tight container.