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Sugar Coated Cashews | Sweet Cashews

Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time10 minutes
Total Time25 minutes
Servings: 45 -50
Author: Sumana

Ingredients

  • Cashews- 1 cup
  • Sugar- 1/2 cup
  • Water- 3 tbsp
  • Rice powder- 2 tbsp
  • Maida- 1 tbsp
  • Ghee- 1 tbsp

Instructions

Method

  • Heat ghee in a pan and cashews. Roast them in medium flame till they change color slightly. Do not brown them.
  • Transfer the roasted cashews in a bowl and let it cool down. Next heat a pan with sugar and water.
  • Let the sugar dissolve completely. continue cooking it in medium flame till you get hard ball consistency.
  • If you add a half a tea spoon of sugar syrup in to a small bowl of water, you should be able to roll and make hard ball out of it.
  • Mix maida and rice powder together and set aside. Add few tablespoon of this sugar syrup over roasted cashews. Then sprinkle rice powder plus maida mix over them. Toss them well.
  • Repeat the process of adding sugar syrup and rice powder over the cashews. Toss well so that sugar and powders coat well over cashews once again. Let them dry over a plate for few hours.
  • Very crunchy and sweet sugar coated cashews are ready to devour.

Notes

  • Use whole cashews for the recipe.
  • While roasting cashews, do not turn them brown completely. Let them change color slightly.
  • Sugar syrup should reach hard ball consistency so that it coats well over the cashew.
  • When the cashews dry up after rice powder coating, it will have layer of milky white sweet coating.