Kaju Katli

Ingredients

• 1 cup Cashews(kaju)
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/4 tsp. elaichi powder(cardamom)-optional

Directions

1. Soak cashews for a couple of hours.
2. Blend them into a smooth paste. If you have a good blender, then you try grinding dry cashews into powder.
   
3. make chasni (sugar syrup) of water and sugar. keep boiling till 1 string .
   
4. Add cahsew paste to chasni and keep stirring on low till it strats leaving the side or forms a lump.
   
5. Roll it on a butter paper, 1/4 inch thick
6. Cut diagonal or square shape

I made some kaju katli yesterday for Lakshmi Puja prasad and it came out quite good:)