Kaju Kamala and Kaju Kalash |Kaju Kathli Recipe
 
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Kaju kathli is a Indian cashew fudge which are traditionally shaped into diamonds but mithai shops have come up with some amazing shapes making these Indian delights and shaping them like Marzipan.
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Recipe type: Indian Sweets
Cuisine: Indian Cuisine
Serves: 15
Ingredients
  • Cashew nut pd – 2 cups
  • Sugar – 1 cup
  • Corn syrup – 1 tbsp (optional)
  • Ghee for greasing (if needed)
  • Silver foil/ Vrak ( optional)
Instructions
  1. Grind the whole cashews in a mixer till they are fine. Don’t over grind the cashews as they may leave out the fat/ oil and stick to form lumps with which you will not be able to make kaju katli at all. Grind only till they are fine , They might be fine but look coarse so touch the cashews and feel it whether it is fine pd.
  2. To make sugar syrup take a sauce pan. Put sugar and ½ cup water and allow it to boil. Add corn syrup once it starts boiling.
  3. Cook them till it reaches one string consistency. To check one string consistency you can take little water in a small plate , put some drops of syrup in the water, if the syrup stay and doesn’t get dissolved . Another way to check is to rub some syrup with your thumb and index finger and stretch it a to forms a thread and that is single thread consistency.
  4. Now add the cashew pd to the syrup in this stage. Simmer the flame to low and cook them stirring  constantly till starts leaving the side of the pan.
  5. Switch off the pan and transfer it to a greased plate. and keep on mixing them with a spoon so that they don’t stick to the plate and dry off and also if you keep on mixing it will cool down a bit soon.
  6. Once it is bare able to touch but still warm  knead them to a smooth dough, grease your hands while you knead if you feel the dough is sticky.
  7. Take a small portion of the dough cover the rest of dough as it will dry out. Shape the dough into circle and then half way through roll the neck part of the matka. Garnish it with vrak , pistachios as needed.
  8. For Kaju kamal you need to divide the dough to 3 portions and dye them yellow, red , green with a very good quality food color.
  9. Roll equal sized red balls first, the yellow balls will be slightly bigger the red and the green balls will be bigger than yellow.
  10. Flatten the yellow balls with your finger to form a thin disk, place the red ball inside the flattened yellow and cover them from all sides do the same with the green portion. So from inside it is red , yellow and then green.
  11. With the leftover red and green dough I made  strawberry shapes.
Recipe by Desi Fiesta at https://www.desifiesta.com/2018/04/kaju-kamal-and-kaju-kalash-kaju-kathli-recipe.html