Cashew Halwa

Ingredients:

• 1 bowl Cashewnuts
• 1 cup Milk
• 1 bowl sugar
• 1/2 tsp Saffron
• 1 cup Ghee

Method:

• Soak cashew nuts in warm milk for 20-30 minutes.
• Blend this soaked cashew to thick puree. One should add only milk while grinding it to paste.
• Optional step: Separately mix saffron to few spoons of milk and grind it. One can do this with simple mortar and pestle manually than a blender.
• In a non-stick pan add ghee. Try to maintain the whole process on low flame only.
• Now add sugar and 1/2 cup of water....bring the syrup to pearl consistency.
• To this syrup add cashew paste and saffron. Constant stirring with well greased wooden spatula is advised. Better smear the spatula with ghee before hand.
• Once the Halwa consistency is achieved transfer it to well greased container. Smear the container preferably with ghee.
• Once it is cool, make small balls of it, garnish it with cashews.
• Cashew halwa is ready to serve.