Kaju Katli

Kaju Katli is one rich and very popular sweet. This is one of my son’s favorite sweet. It’s very simple to and easy to prepare.                                                

But you need very careful while making into get right consistency. It tastes better than store kaju katli’s … wow we love it…

Ingredients

Whole Cashews – 1 cup

Sugar – ½ cup

Water – ¼ cup

Melted Ghee –To Garnish

Method

In a blender add cashews and grind it to a semi fine powder.

If you are grinding as fine paste, then the whole mixture will turn sticky.

Now boil sugar and water, keep stirring in low flame till sugar completely dissolves.

Then it starts to bubble up, keep stirring.

Now add the cashew mixture and keep stirring until it forms a thick rolling mixture.

It should be like flexible dough. The dough should not be fry. This should be soft and flexible.

You can even try rolling a ball. It should be flexible then that’s the right consistency.

Then switch off the flame and let it cool down for 10 min.

In case if the mixture is dry, you can add little ghee and then knead it.

Now lay a butter paper and place the kaju dough and fold the paper such that the butter paper is on top and bottom of the dough.

Now start rolling with a chapati roller. Roll it to ¼ inch thickness; remove the butter paper on top. 

Cut with a sharp knife. Mark lines. And cut into diamonds. Serve this yummy kaju katli