ByIANSlife Features

October 21, 2019 (IANSlife) During festivals, it's hard to stay away from goodies, especially if you have sweet tooth. But if you’re a stickler for health and hygiene, it is better to go for home cooked stuff. Sr. Sous Chef Vijesh Modi of The Deltin, Daman. shares a sweet recipe to keep you away from packaged stuff. 

Anjeer Kaju Roll

Ingredients:

1 kg cashew nuts
500 gms figs
500 gms sugar
100 gms pistachio
10 gms green cardamom powder
1/2 gms saffron
25 gms honey
100 gms beetroot juice

Method:

• Grind 800 grams of cashew nut and add it in a heavy bottom pan or kadai. Then, add in 250 grams of sugar and cook for about 5 minutes on a slow heat. Take out and keep the mixture aside. It will look like a thick cashew nut paste.
• Let the mixture cool down enough to handle.
• Now repeat the same with figs. Grind 500 grams of soaked figs and add it in a heavy bottom pan or kadai. Then, add in 250 grams of sugar and cook for about 5 minutes on slow heat. Take out and keep aside. It will look like a thick paste. Let the mixture cool down enough to handle.
• Take another vessel, cook beetroot juice and add cardamom powder, saffron, honey and pistachio in it. Mix this mixture with the already prepared cashew nut paste.
• Take aluminum foil and spread the fig paste on it using a palette knife. Later, spread cashew nut paste over the fig paste with the help of a spatula.
• Slowly roll over using silver foil very gently. Keep it in the freezer for couple of hours until it is hard enough to cut.
• Cut it into roundels using sharp edge knife and serve.