Chef Naman shares a simple homemade kaju katli recipe using cashews, sugar, water, cardamom and ghee, offering an easy alternative to shop bought mithai. (Image Credits: Instagram)
\n\nChef Naman has a simple message for anyone heading to the mithai shop this festive season: skip it. His reel walks through a homemade kaju katli that uses only a handful of ingredients and needs no special equipment. The video is captioned “Stop buying Kaju Katli!”, and by the end he has a tray of neat diamond-shaped pieces.
\n\nThe ingredient list is short. For the syrup, he uses 200 grams of sugar and one cup of water, along with three pods of cardamom. The main ingredient is 250 grams of cashew powder, and a single tablespoon of ghee goes into the mix. Silver varq is added on top at the end. That is the whole list, which may be the most surprising part for anyone who assumes kaju katli takes a long list of ingredients or years of practice.
\n\nHe starts with the sugar syrup, cooking the cardamom in so its aroma carries into the sweet. The cashew powder then goes into the syrup along with the ghee, and everything is brought together…
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