Badam Burfi

Ingredients:

• 1 cup whole almonds
• 1 cup sugar
• Pinch of Cardamom powder
• 2 tablespoons butter or ghee (clear butter)
• 1/3 cup milk

Procedure:

• Soak the almonds in hot water for 30 minutes.
• Peel the skin off the almonds.
• Blend the almonds into a fine paste using just enough milk as needed to blend.
• Add the sugar and whip it for a couple of minutes.
• Heat the ghee in the frying pan on medium heat.
• When the ghee melts, add the almond paste and cook on medium heat, stirring continuously.
• Continue stirring until the mixture thickens to the consistency of bread batter, and starts leaving the sides of the pan.
• Add the cardamom powder.
• Remove the frying pan from the heat.
• Keep stirring the batter using a spoon in a circular motion for about two to three minutes.
• Pour it into the prepared greased pan.
• Smoothen the surface of the mixture to about a quarter inch thick.
• Let it cool until burfi is just warm.
• Cut into diamond or any shape you like.
• Cool to the room temperature and store burfi in an airtight container.