Kaju Barfi / Kaju Katli

Kaju Barfi made easy....

You will be surprised to know that this soft and yummy Kaju Barfi recipe is so simple and you’ll never have to run to the sweet shop again..

Ingredients:

• One cup Cashewnuts 
• Half a cup Sugar heaped
• One fourth cup Water
• 2 tsp of Ghee
• Saffron Strands 3-4 (optional)

Procedure:

Before you start with this recipe note that all ingredients should be at room temperature. If you have placed  cashew nuts in the freezer keep it out for few hours so that it comes to normal temperature and then powder it. Powder the cashew nuts in a dry mixer(blender wont do) at one stretch. Let the powder be fine.

                         
Heat a thick pan with water.Add sugar and saffron strands.

Heat till the sugar gets dissolved stirring in between.Once sugar gets dissolved stop stirring, reduce the flame and boil till this reach one string consistency. This step is very important.

Once the consistency is reached you can add the cashew nut powder and start stirring it in a low flame. Keep doing till it reaches a soft dough consistency. It should take about 2-3 mins. Over doing this will result in hard barfis.

When it comes together take a small portion of the dough and try to roll it in to a ball.When you are able to do that.switch off the stove and allow it to cool.

When done transfer it to a plate and when it is warm grease your hands with ghee and start kneading it into a  soft dough. You can sprinkle little milk if it is a  bit dry but addition of more milk also reduces the shelf life.

Now transfer it to a wide greased plate/inverted flat plate/ flat surface covered with aluminium foil  and start rolling it evenly with a rolling pin  for about 1 cm thickness. Cut them into diamonds and the kaju barfis are ready to eat now.

Enjoy it with your friends and family :)