Cashew nut barfi
Cashew nut barfi recipe in the indian category
Recipe ingredients:
- 300 g. cashew nuts, finely ground
- 1/2 l. milk
- 1 cup sugar
- 250 g. khoya
- 1 coconut, grated
- 10 g. each, almonds (badam) and pistachios, chopped
- 1 cup ghee or oil
- 2 cardamoms, ground
- Few strands of saffron
- Pinch of nutmeg
- Paper silver varak
Recipe method:
- Pass the cashewnut powder through a fine sieve, then fry in oil for a couple of minutes and keep aside.
- Add khoya to cold milk.
- Separately, add the nutmeg with a little milk and keep aside.
- Fry the coconut in oil till it turns a light brown.
- In a heavy bottomed vessel, boil the milk and add the sugar.
- Stir till it dissolves, then add cardamom, saffron and nutmeg.
- Add the khoya, cashewnut pwd, grated coconut to the milk mixture and stir thoroughly.
- Continue cooking on a low flame, stirring constantly.
- When the mixture leaves the side of the vessel, remove and spoon contents into a greased thali.
- Smoothen with the back of a flat spoon.
- Garnish with varak, almonds and pistachios.
- Cut into diamond shaped pieces and serve.