It was our first anniversary and I wanted to make something special. It is a general tradition that for special occassions, we should make something sweet. Unfortunately, my husband does not like anything sweet except for Kaju Katli. If I was in was India, I would have ran to the nearest sweet mart and buy Kaju Katli for the occasion. But in Oslo, I don't even know if any sweet mart exists!This is when I thought of making Kaju Katli at home. I searched many recipe books that I had brought from India, but none of the recipes were close to what the sweet shop actually sold.
Then, while searching online, I stumbled upon this recipe evolved by Padma Mehta which was easy to make and as I thought it came out better than the one that one you would find in any sweet shop. Moreover it was home made too.
My husband just loved it! Moreover, since he was going to India the next day on a business trip, he took some for his and my parents. They thought I bought Kaju Katli from outside and sent for them and could'nt believe that I had actually made it at home.
Ingredients:
- 250 gm Cashews / Kaju
- 4-5 pods of Cardamom / Elaichi
- 50 ml Water
- 125 gm Sugar
- 2-3 sheets of Varak / silver foil (optional - as the way the varak is made is controversial)
- Grind the Cashew along with the Cardamom in a grinder to a fine powder. Do not add any water while grinding. It may become a lump or like a paste but that is due to oil in cashews.
- Add the sugar in a pan with water. Boil till you get a single thread consistency. It would take around 3-4 minutes after the syrup starts boiling.
- Turn the gas off but do not remove the pan. Directly mix the ground kaju paste into the syrup. Remove lumps if any by mashing with a spoon, pressing it and moving it in circular motion, stir well.
- Let it cool. When cooled it becomes thicker like a dough.
- Grease a Table top or a flat surface. Transfer the dough on the greased surface and roll it with a rolling pin to the thickness you desire. (Optional - In this step, after you have spread the dough on the greased surface, let it cool a bit and then apply the varak. For decoration you can spread small cut pistas, raisins, etc)
- Now let it cool completely and cut into diamond shape Katlis.
hey, katli was superb sissy! loved it!
ReplyDeleteHey Meena... u can add mawa/khoya also to it... It adds to the taste as well :)
ReplyDeleteyes.. but kaju itself contains soo much of fat and adding khoya will add up to the calories.. but yes adding khoya will make it richer...
ReplyDeleteHey meenakshi. I am not sure if you remember me. I was hemamalini's classmate.
ReplyDeleteI tried your kaju katli receipe and da outcome was good. thnak you so much for sharing the simple and easy receipe of making kaju katli.
Will try the other stuffs as well and let you know how it was. thanks