With Diwali around the corner, all that comes to mind is new clothes, lights, fun, and hogging on some good food and yummy sweet delights. Diwali isn’t complete without the crunchy goodness of dry fruits, right? So, whether it’s just a box of assorted dry fruits or a delicious sweet recipe you’d love to try, you could easily find plenty of good quality mixed dry fruits online to make this Diwali special. If you’ve decided on whipping up batches of different dry fruit recipes this year, we’ve got you covered. Here are 5 super easy and tasty dry fruit recipes you could try out!
1. The Popular Zafrani Kaju Katli Recipe
Ingredients:
- 200 grams of broken cashew nuts
- 2 teaspoons saffron
- 12 tablespoons sugar
- 4 sheets of silver leaf
- 1 teaspoon cardamom powder
Instructions:
- Grind the cashew nuts to a fine powder
- In a pan, heat 4 cups of water. Add the sugar and saffron. Mix and cook well till it’s a thick syrup
- Now, add in the cashew nuts and cardamom powder and cook the mixture for about 3 to 4 minutes
- Spread the mixture onto a plate and let it cool down to room temperature
- Transfer the mixture onto a worktop and knead the mixture well
- Spread this mixture into a burfi tray or flat plate
- Garnish with silver leaf and let it set well
- Cut them into squares or diamond pieces
- Serve!
2. Tasty Dry Fruits And Nuts Ladoo Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 small bowl of de-seeded black dates
- Half a bowl of minced raisins
- 1 small bowl of mixed nuts
- Desiccated coconut for dusting
Instructions:
- In a mixer, grind all the nuts coarsely and keep aside
- Grind the raisins and dates separately in a mixer or hand pound them in a zip pouch roughly
- Mix everything in a dish
- Grease your palms and start rolling them into small ladoos
- Now, roll the ladoos on the desiccated coconut and coat them well
- Let it set in the refrigerator
- Ready to serve.
3. Delicious Badam Barfi Recipe
Ingredients:
- 3/4 cup of almonds
- 1 cup of hot water
- 3/4 cup of sugar
- 2 tablespoons saffron milk
- 1/2 cup water
- 4 cardamoms powdered
- 2 tablespoons ghee
Instructions:
- In a large bowl, soak ¾ cup of almonds in hot water for about an hour
- Now, start peeling off the skin from all the almonds and keep aside
- Pat dry the almonds to make sure that there is no moisture present
- Once done, transfer the almonds into a blender and blend to a coarse powder and keep aside
- In the meanwhile, prepare the sugar syrup by adding ½ cup of water and ¾ cup of sugar
- Stir continuously on low flame till it forms a one string consistency
- Keep mixing till the mixture leaves the pan
- Transfer the dough onto the butter paper and allow to cool for 5 minutes
- Grease your hand with ghee and knead for a while
- Roll the dough and cut into shapes
- Serve!
4. Easy Dry Fruit and Date Rolls Recipe
Ingredients:
- 250 grams of mixed dry fruit and seeds
- 500 grams pitted dates
- 10 grams khus khus
- 2 teaspoons ghee
Instructions:
- In a non-stick pan, roast the poppy seeds and keep aside
- Add the ghee, stir fry the nuts, and set aside to cool
- In the mixer, grind the dates till they form a soft lump
- Transfer the nuts to the mixer and mix them with the dates
- Now, take an aluminium foil and roll into a cylinder shape
- Refrigerate for about 4-5 hours and cut into circles.
5. Yummy Pista Fudge Recipe
Ingredients:
- 2 cups pistachios
- ¼ cup freshly grated coconut
- 1 cup of sugar
- ¼ cup of water
- 1 teaspoon cardamom powder
Instructions:
- Soak the pistachios for half an hour in warm water. Rinse and Drain
- In a mixer, blend the pistachios with the coconut to a smooth mixture and keep aside
- For the syrup, mix sugar and water in a pan on medium heat and boil till it reaches a two-string consistency
- Add the coconut and pistachio mixture along with the cardamom powder to the syrup and keep stirring.
- Once the mixture thickens, turn off the heat and transfer to a greased pan. Cool and cut into slices
- Serve!
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