Baked cashew nut diamonds

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    16

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Complete Indian Regional Cookbook: 300 Classic Recipes from the Great Regions of India

By Mridula Baljekar

Published 2017

  • About

An extremely popular sweet dish found all over India, these tasty cakes are made using cashew nuts and flavoured with delicate cardamom. Kaju Burfi is very simple to make: a soft dough is formed from a mixture of ground cashew nuts, sugar and ghee, then flattened and baked in the oven.

Ingredients

  • 225 g/8 oz raw unsalted cashew nuts
  • 100 g/3

Method

  1. Put the cashew nuts in a small heatproof bowl and pour over enough boiling water to cover. Soak for 20 minutes, then drain them and place in a food processor or blender. Blend the nuts until a smooth paste forms, then transfer the paste to a large mixing bowl.

  2. Add the remaining ingredients to the cashew nut paste in the bowl, and knead the mixture car