Kaju Katali – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Take cashew nuts in a blender pot and blend them.
• Just give it a pulse and stop. Do not blend continuously.
• Continue this until you blend cashew nuts into powder.
• Take a small holes sieve and strain the cashew powder through it once. So that any chunks of cashew if present will be removed.
• Take the powder into a dish and add milk powder. You also can use dairy whitener.
• Mix well and keep aside.
• To make sugar syrup take sugar into a sauce pan and add water.
• Mix well and dissolve the sugar.
• When sugar dissolves and the syrup comes to boil, turn the heat to medium.
• Continue to cook for 7-8 minutes more.
• We want thick, 2 threaded syrup.
• For checking consistency, take syrup into a spoon and let it cool down.
• Check the consistency when the syrup cools down.
• Turn off the gas. Add rose essence and mix well.
• You also can add cardamom powder or keshar syrup too.
• Add the cashew and milk powder into syrup and mix well.
• Turn on the gas and cook for just another 2 more minutes.
• Turn off the gas and spread the mixture well in the pan.
• Give it a resting time of about 10 minutes.
• After 10 minutes, take the mixture into a dish and knead it.
• Do not knead more, just for about a minute or two to make it smooth.
• Take wax paper and roll it into 3-4 cm thick disc.
• Top it up with silver vark. You can skip the vark too.
• Cut the kaju katali into diamond shape. Kaju katali is already.