Munthiri cake/cashew fugde
Munthiri cake is a soft melt-in-the-mouth traditional Indian sweet made with cashew nuts, sugar and ghee.
Servings 12 pieces
Ingredients
- ½ cup cashew nuts
- 1 cup milk
- ½ cup sugar (+2tbsp)
- ½ cup ghee
- a big pinch of cardamom powder
Instructions
- Soak the cashew nuts in the milk for an hour.
- Grind this to a nice paste in a mixer grinder. To this add half a cup of sugar and cardamom powder and grind. Taste test and add more sugar if needed.
- Grease a small tray liberally with some ghee and keep it ready.
- Heat up a tbsp of ghee in a pan. Add the ground paste to it and keep sauteeing on medium flame, adding the remaining ghee at regular intervals.
- When it leaves the sides of the pan and gathers together, transfer it to the greased pan and level it up with a ladle.
- Let it cool a bit and slice it into even-sized pieces. Allow it to completely cool before serving.
