3 Ingredient Kaju Katli | Cashew Katli Recipe
3 Ingredient Kaju Katli | Cashew Katli Recipe is a popular Indian sweet made from cashew nuts. This is one of the most iconic royal sweets for festivals, giveaways, and social gatherings. Cashew Katli has a characteristic thin diamond shape.
Equipment
- 1 Non Stick Pan
- 1 spatula
- Parchment paper
Ingredients
- ¾ cup whole cashew nuts 125 gm
- ¼ cup sugar 50 gm
- ¼ cup water 50/60 ml
- Ghee (optional) for brushing
- Edible silver varak (optional) for decoration
Instructions
Make Cashew nut powder
- Firstly, coarsely crush the cashew nuts for ease in grinding.
- Then grind the crushed cashew nuts in a grinding jar. Use pulse grind method. Do not grind at a stretch. Pulse twice or thrice as needed.. The cashew powder should not become a paste due to heat of grinder motor. The resulting cashew powder should be loose and crumbly, not clumped together. Cashew nut powder is ready.
How to make Sugar Syrup
- Now in a nonstick pan, take sugar and water. Bring to boil on medium flame. Sugar will melt and the sugar water will boil. Maintain low to medium flame.
- Upon checking, we will observe that the solution is slowly becoming sticky and is changing to sugar syrup. Let the syrup continue to simmer. Check the consistency once or twice.
- When the syrup forms half a thread syrup consistency- the stickiness of syrup becomes more prominent and when you pull a drop of syrup between thumb and index finger, it makes half a thread and then breaks. This is the correct time to add cashew nut powder.
Mix Sugar syrup with Cashew nut powder
- Now add cashew nut powder and mix well. Work on low to medium flame.
- Maintain low flame and keep stirring continuously otherwise the mixture may burn. At first the mixture will be loose and sticky. Slowly, it will leave the sides of nonstick pan, and collect in the centre. Must read step by step instructions mentioned in the post above and tips given below.
How to shape kaju mixture for Kaju Katli
- Transfer on a lined work surface.
- Smoothen out the mixture as shown in video in recipe card
- Shape it into a square or rectangle taking help of parchment paper and rolling with a rolling pin
- Finally, apply the silver vark (optional)
- Wait for 2-3 hours and then cut into diamond shape pieces.. Kaju Katli is ready.
What to serve with
- Serve this alongside Nankhatai and Karak Chai or a glass of Badam Shake
Video
Notes
- Buy premium quality cashew nuts - white in colour. Fresh cashew nuts are crunchy and have a sweet-ish taste. Upon storing for a long time, they become soft and pale in colour, turn rancid and may not taste like fresh stuff.
- Right stage of katli mixture
- With a spatula drop some kaju mixture from the edges of pan, it will slowly slide down the sides of pan.
- When you lightly touch kaju mixture, it will be dry.
- When you tilt the spatula with some cashew mixture on it, the mixture will cling to the spatula and not fall off.
- Do not grind for a long time. It is for this reason that I coarsely crushed in mortar pestle and then ground so that the heat of the grinder motor does not change texture and colour of cashew powder