Sweet, inviting, and made for sharing, Kaju Katli Recipe | Kaju Barfi Sweet - Tips & Tricks is a vegetarian Indian sweet made with cashew / kaju, sugar, and water in about 15 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 5 minutes
- Cook time: 15 minutes
- Total time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 40 pieces
- Category: sweet
- Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients
- 2 cup cashew / kaju
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup water
- 1 tsp ghee / clarified butter
- ¼ tsp cardamom powder
Method
- firstly, in a mixi take 2 cup cashew and blend to a fine powder. make sure to pulse and blend else, the cashew will release oil and turns into a paste.
- sieve the cashew powder making sure there are no lumps. keep aside.
- in a large kadai take 1 cup sugar and ½ cup water.
- stir well and dissolve sugar. boil for 5 minutes or until 1 string consistency is attained.
- add in powdered cashew and mix well.
- stir continuously until the mixture is well combined and smooth paste is formed.
- now add 1 tsp ghee and ¼ tsp cardamom powder. mix well.
- continue to cook until the mixture turns smooth paste and starts to separate pan slightly. do not overcook, as the burfi will turn hard.
- transfer the mixture on to the butter paper. make sure to grease the butter paper with ghee.
- now fold using a spatula until the mixture thickens forming a dough.
- once the dough is formed, knead slightly, to form a soft dough.
- place the cashew dough between butter paper and roll using a rolling pin.
- roll slightly thick making sure it's uniform.
- now grease with ghee and apply silver leaf or silver vark. applying vark is optional.
- now cut into diamond shape or shape of your choice.
- finally, enjoy kaju katli for a month when stored in an airtight container.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.
