Diwali Count Down -- Kaju Katli (Cashew Burfi) 【印度腰果片】

It will be Diwali in less than 10 days, and I have been thinking of doing a Indian sweets series in celebration of this Diwali.

This is the first sweet in my list -- Kaju Katli, I have no met a person who doesn't like the taste of this sweets, even with my not so sweet Chinese taste buds, this charming sweet's nutty flavour won me over the very first time I tasted it!

再过一个星期就是印度的大节Diwali（灯节）了，传统上是要做很多的小甜点送亲朋戚友的。往年我们都是买点意思意思。今年碰巧老公在灯节前两天要换到他一直很希望进入的公司上班，我工作也相对的比较空闲了。

就计划着做几款小甜点庆祝庆祝。

这是第一款，也是我老公最喜爱的甜点，叫做Kaju Katli，是用腰果（Cashew Nuts）做的，很香甜，有着浓浓的腰果香，很是好吃。

关于灯节的一些说明，Wikipedia上抄来的：

屠妖節（梵文：दीपावली、Dīpāvali；印地语：दिवाली、Diwali；泰米尔文：தீபாவளி、Deepavali）直譯排灯节，也稱萬燈節或印度燈節，是耆那教、印度教與錫克教慶祝「以光明驅走黑暗，以善良戰勝邪惡」的節日，於每年印度曆八月（天蝎宫）裏的第15個滿月日（即公曆10月下旬或11月上旬）舉行^[1][2]。一些佛教信徒也慶祝這個節日。

Ingredients：
1 cup Cashew Nuts (Kaju)
1/2 - 3/4 cup Sugar/Sugar in the raw
1 tsp Corn starch
1/4 tsp Cardamom seeds
1/4 cup Water/Milk
a pinch of salt

材料：
1 杯 碎腰果（整腰果也可以）
1/2 - 3/4 杯 糖/红糖
1 小勺 粟米粉
1/4 小勺 豆蔻籽 （Cardamom seeds）
一小撮 盐

1/4 杯 水/牛奶

Grind cashew nuts with 1 tsp of corn starch and 1/3 of the sugar into powder, you could use coffee grinder or vitamix to do this job. If you could find cashew powder in Indian supermarket, use that! 

Crush cardamom seeds into powder, finer the better. Mix cardamom powder, salt and cashew powder together.

In a cooking pan/kadai, bring 1/4 cup of water and remaining sugar to boil, continue cooking at medium until white colour bubbles form, remember not to let it caramelize!

Quickly stir in the cashew powder, and let it cook for 5-6 minutes at medium heat, when you starts seeing big bubbles forming, switch off the heat and let cold.

首先把腰果加上1 tsp的粟米粉和1/3的糖用coffee grinder或者搅拌机磨成粉，越细越好。把豆蔻籽磨/捣成粉。

然后把腰果粉，豆蔻籽粉和盐混匀。

在一口锅里把剩下的糖和1/4杯水煮滚，煮至出泡泡，变成焦糖之前，快速倒入腰果粉拌匀。继续中火煮5-6分钟，逐渐浓稠，出现大泡泡的时候，熄火冷却。

When the paste/dough reduced to workable temperature, take it out and place over a lightly greased surface/plate.

Knead it lightly until surface become glassy/smooth. Press it down slowly and use a rolling pin to flatten and even out the dough into about 2-3mm thick.

Cut into diamond shape before harden. Apply the silver foil if you have some.

Store in container with cover up to about a week.

不烫手之后，可以铲出放到抹上薄薄的食油的盘子上，搓至表面光滑为止。然后压平，用擀面杖擀平，成2-3mm厚。

在还没有变硬之前切割成菱形, 也可以铺上银箔装饰。

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Kaju Katli 腰果片