Badam Burfi ( Almond Sweet )

Easy to make and very tasty. Ideal sweet for a festival like Diwali

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Ingredients
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Badam / Almonds - 1 cup
Sugar - 2 cup
Ghee - 2.5 cups
Milk - 0.5 cup
Saffron - a few strands

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Method
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1. Boil water and soak the almonds in hot water for half an hour
2. Peel of the almond skin and chop it into small pieces
3. Put the chopped almonds in a blender and add the milk. Make a fine paste
4. In the kadai , add the sugar and 2 tablespoon of water and allow it to become a syrup
5. Once the sugar is completely dissolved , add the almond paste .
6. Add the ghee now and then little by little whenver the mixture seems to sticking to the kadai
7. Keep stirring continuously until the mixture starts coming off the kadai without sticking. It might take around 12 minutes to reach this consistency
8. Take a plate and spread ghee all over.
9. Pour the almond mixture and spread it evenly in the plate
10. Make pieces using the knife once the burfi cools down.
11. Store it in an air tight container and it will stay good for about a week