Recipe name –Kaju-pista
karwa
Ingredients -1cup Cashew Nuts
1/2cupSugar
1/2cup Water
1/4 tsp Ghee
Melon seeds and silver paper for the decoration
For Pistachio filling
1/2 cup Pistachio Powder
2 tbsp Milk powder - Optional
2tbsps cup Powdered Sugar
1 tbsp warm water
Silver Varak Leaves to decorate karwas
1/2cupSugar
1/2cup Water
1/4 tsp Ghee
Melon seeds and silver paper for the decoration
For Pistachio filling
1/2 cup Pistachio Powder
2 tbsp Milk powder - Optional
2tbsps cup Powdered Sugar
1 tbsp warm water
Silver Varak Leaves to decorate karwas
Method
– For Pistachio filling-: Mix all the pista
filling ingredients and make like dough.
For covering- Put Cashew Nuts into a blender and make them
really very fine, like flour.Keep aside. Dissolve the
sugar in 1/2 cup of water and prepare syrup of 1 string consistency.
Then add the cashew nuts. Stir continuously, until it looks like dough for
bread. It takes about five to seven minutes. Now you take your pot off the heat
and turn the stove off. You need to keep on stirring your dough though until it
doesn’t stick to your pot anymore and doesn’t stick to your hand when you touch
it. This will take about five minutes. Now add the ghee into the pot and turn
the dough in it. Take the dough out now and put it in a bowl. Mix and knead very well. Now take small portion of the dough and
make a small ball, by using greased palm. Fill this ball with pista filling and
form in a karwa shape. Now decorate each karwa with roasted melon seed. Repeat
the same for the rest of the dough.Wrap each karwa with Silver
Varak Leaves.
. Kaju-pista
karwas are ready for bayna platter.
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ReplyDeleteKarva Chauth is an old Indian tradition which has made a strong impression on us as a culture. Karwa Chauth is one of the most popular festival specially for married women. Though the festival is much popular in Northern and Western Indian states like Punjab, U.P., Delhi, Haryana, Gujarat, etc. But now the festival is known across the country for its pious rituals and reason. The festival falls on the Kartik ki Chauth which means the fourth day of the wanning moon or dark fortnight of Hindu month of Kartik. According to English calendar, the month corresponds to October or November. The festival is comes about nine days before the festival of Diwali. The important aspect of Karwa Chauth is that a dawn to dusk fast is undertaken by the ladies and they finally break the fast after seeing the moon. The fast is unique in itself because nowhere in this whole world does a wife go without food or water just to pray for the long-life and well-being of her husband. On the Karwa Chauth of a woman, the Sargi and Bayna are extravagant and royal.
Sargi -given to daughter in law by mother in law.Bayna- given to mother in law by daughter in law. Unique tradition of showing love and respect to each other.Here is recipe for Bayna (symbol of respect )