“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch
of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for
home.”
- Edith Sitwell
Winter has finally settled here in India with markets full of freshest produce of the season. I’ve been whipping something or the other since the beginning of the year that now I have almost lost track of the recipes. My technology skills also got a thorough workout recently, after many hours of reading up on the blog world, I’m proud to say I finally
have a collective space to store my thoughts and images, and a reason to start with marathon cooking in the kitchen and behind the lens.
I was unsure about my first entry. I thought of sharing traditional Indian cuisine or probably a cake. But then I settled down to this cashew nut roll. This recipes was shared with me by aunt last year. I have been eying to make this since long but could never get around to actually making it. I feel little scarred of traditional Indian sweets. I tend to so wrong with the process of making the sugar syrup. But then I did wanted to make something sweet for the New Beginning and also something i havent tried before so that i could share my first time experience here. So I settled on something a little more
approachable.
1 cup milk
1 cup semolina
1/2 cup powdered cashew nut
1 n 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 ghee
2 tbsp crushed pistachio
Process
- Melt ghee in a think bottomed pan on a slow gas. Add sugar, milk and stir for a few minutes
- Add semolina and cashew nut powder. Mix it well till soft paste is formed ( about 3 minutes)
- Remove it from the gas and keep on stirring till it cools down. The paste will automatically star to in the process of cooling down
- Apply some ghee to your palms and roll the thick paste into desired shape
Do try it out. And keep me posted on your adventures.
Ciao
