7/29/2019 Kaju Kanda
1/3
food-n-more.blogspot.hu
http://food-n-more.blogspot.hu/2013/03/kajukanda-little-cashew-treats-to-bring.html
Kajukanda: Little cashew treats to bring back the child in
you.
Hi to all of you af ter almost a whole year. Many of you might
even have tro uble remembering who I am
and I cannot say I blame you. Anyway let be jog your memory a
litt le. I am Anupama, and I blog about all
the delicious things (if I may say so myself ) that I make in my
litt le kitchen. I have been on a year long
break for various reasons that I wouldn't want to bore you guys
with. But I am back. Believe me I have
missed by blog just as much as you all have. I was desperate t o
get back into the blogsphere on so many
ocass ionsin this last year, but it was just o ther commitments
that I had taken up myself that wouldn't let
me.
Now my intention to come back to my blog was always there, but
two things t hat kind made my resolve
to blog again even stronger were:
1. Firstly f riends started talking about my blog in the past
tense. Oooooh how scary and sad that was!
2. Secondly avid readers of my blog and even a couple of new
neighbours who unt il recently did not even
know that I had a blog, kept asking me to update. It was really
touching. It made me realise how much
people liked what I posted.
So here I am back in action. What I have today and what you see
in the pic above are two kinds o f treats .
Chocolate Squares and Cashewnut and Rose Flavoured Squares,
which are called Kajukanda in Marathi.
I'll tell you more about the chocolate squares in my next post.
But t his one is f or Kajukanda.
Many of you must have enjoyed Kajukanda as kids and some of us
enjoy it even as adults. They are litt le
bites of sugary delight that are hard to resist.
Now Kajukanda is so ld by the truckload in mos t f oo d sto res,
but I of ten wonder how much of real
cashews actually go into them. Seriously sometimes they taste
more o f peanuts than cashews. So when
my mom came up with this recipe of homemade ones, I jumped.
http://food-n-more.blogspot.hu/2013/03/kajukanda-little-cashew-treats-to-bring.html
7/29/2019 Kaju Kanda
2/3
The f irst batch she made was a trial and it disappeared in a
matter o f minutes. Ever since she makes
them every so of ten. As she is a Grandma to three kids (not all
mine.... god f orbid :)), who constant ly
crave sugar in all its f orms, she has ample oppo rtunity to
make them. Believe me, once you t ry these
homemade ones, you will never buy the store variety. They are
easy to make, not at all time-consuming
and def initely heaps tas tier.
So here goes
Grease a 8" x 10" tray. (Dimensions of tray are approximate)
Ingredients
2 cups f inely powdered plain cashewnuts (I used an ordinary
teacup. You can use any other cup,
but then st ick to the same for measuring the rest o f the
ingredients .)
1 cup sugar
3 drops o f pink food colour
1/2 a tspn of rose essence (Available in all f oo d stores)
Water to make a syrup
Method
1. Place the sugar in a heavy bot tom pan.
2. Pour just enough water over the sugar t ill all the sugar is
just about submerged in the water. Do
this very gradually, so you don't end up with t oo much water in
the pan.
3. Switch on the heat on low simmer.
4. Let the sugar disso lve and the syrup come to a boil on a low
simmer till you have a hard ball
consistency syrup. This took me about 8 t o 9 mins. But that can
change depending on t he amount
of water you add to the sugar and also the heat sett ings of
your hob.5. A more assured way of checking this is to put a drop of
hot syrup into a glass o f water. The drop
of syrup should form a hard ball in the water. This is the
tricky part in the recipe. So it's best to
keep the heat on low simmer throughout the recipe, so you don't
overdo the syrup.
6. Once your sugar syrup has reached the right consistency, add
the cashew powder and the rose
essence to it.
7. Cook further for approximately 3 to 4 minutes, or until you
see the mixture leave the sides of the
pan. All on low simmer.
8. Pour the mixture into your prepared tray.
9. Give the tray a couple of gentle bangs on your kitchen platf
orm to get a smooth to p surf ace. Don'ttouch the mixture with your
f ingers.
10. The mixture will set in a few minutes .
11. Cut out squares the size you want.
12. Store a tight lidded container.
As there is no milk in this recipe, Kajukanda keep well f or a
reaso nably long t ime. But in warm weather
they can be sto red in the f ridge too .
