Kaju Katli

Kaju Katli

Kaju Katli or Kaju Burfi is a festive sweet dish. It is very famous all over India. It needs very few ingredients to prepare and has a very easy procedure to follow. But a lot of patience is needed to prepare this.

This is my elder son's favorite sweet. He insisted me to prepare this sweet. He complains of me preparing different sweets but not trying and preparing his favorite sweet. It is also my brother's favorite. So it tempted me to prepare this. Here is the recipe 

Kaju- 1Cup

Sugar- 1/2 Cup

Water- 5tbsp

Ghee- 1tsp

Kesar- a pinch

Take a cup of Kaju and make a smooth powder. Shift this powder and remove the broken pieces and keep aside. 

Grease a plate with ghee and keep aside.

In a non stick kadai add sugar and water. It is safe to use non stick kadai as kaju paste will stick to button and in nonstick it is easy to remove. 

Let the sugar melt properly. Then cook the sugar syrup for 3 to 4 minutes more (up to one thread consistency). At this stage add kesar or saffron to it.

Now add the kaju powder to it. Keep the flame on low only. Mix the powder properly without lumps. Cook the kaju powder.

Slowly it will start to be forming a dough. When it is getting thick, bring out a small portion and allow it to cool down. Then try to make a ball, if a ball can be prepared then dough is ready.

Remove it from gas and pour over the already greased plate. Allow the dough to cool down.

After 7 to 8 mins when the dough come down to a touchable temperature, then try to knead the dough a bit. But the dough need to be little hot.

Then put the dough between two butter paper. Spread a little and roll with the help of a rolling pin. It shouldn't be too thin or too thick. It should be 5 mm of thickness. Then cut the katli in desired shape. I like it diamond shape as my son call it as diamond sweet. So I kept it in diamond shape.

Allow it to cool down completely and serve to your loved ones.