easy roasted cashew nuts recipe | roasted kaju | roasted cashews 2 ways
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 5 minutes
- Cook time: 15 minutes
- Total time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 2 cups
- Category: Snack
- Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients
for besan coated masala kaju:
- 1 cup kaju / cashew (whole)
- ¼ cup besan / gram flour
- 2 tbsp rice flour
- ½ tsp turmeric / haldi
- 1 tsp kashmiri red chilli powder / lal mirch powder
- ½ tsp chaat masala
- pinch of hing / asafoetida
- ½ tsp salt
- 2-3 tbsp water (to coat)
- oil for deep frying
for chilli coated masala kaju:
- 1 tbsp ghee / clarified butter
- ½ tsp kashmiri red chilli powder / lal mirch powder
- 1 cup kaju / cashew (whole)
- ¼ tsp turmeric / haldi
- ½ tsp salt
Method
besan coated roasted cashew nut recipe:
- firstly, mix cashew along with besan, rice flour, spices and salt.
- now add 2 tbsp of water and mix till the besan batter gets coated well to cashew.
- drop the besan coated cashew one by one into medium hot oil.
- stir occasionally and fry till cashew turn crunchy.
- also fry few curry leaves till it turns crisp.
- finally, mix curry leaves along with roasted cashew and masala cashew is ready to serve.
spiced roasted cashew nuts recipe:
- firstly heat 1 tbsp ghee and roast in 1 cup cashew nuts to golden brown.
- add in ½ tsp chilli powder, ¼ tsp turmeric and ½ tsp salt.
- mix well till the spices get coated well.
- finally, serve spiced roasted cashew nuts.
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.