Badam Sweets/Almond Sweets

I am very much impressed by the almond sweet recipe by sridevi of Jiboomba. She has a fantastic blog with variety of recipes. Do visit her's for the wonderful recipes. I could not resist or postpone trying it. Though i could not get the red color, it really tastes awesome. Here goes the recipe.

 

Ingredients

• Almonds - 2 cups
• Sugar - 1 cup (Can be adjusted according to your taste)
• Powdered sugar/Icing sugar - 3 to 5 tsp
• Milk - 3/4th cup
• Red Colour - 1 to 2 pinch
• Green Colour - less than a pinch
• Ghee - 2 to 3 tsp (as needed)

Method

• Soak the almonds overnight or 2 hrs in hot water.
• Peel the skin and grind in the blender to a smooth paste by adding milk.
• In a wide pan, add the almond paste, sugar and stir well, so that water content evoporates.
• When the paste becomes thick, add the red colour and before adding save a 2 to 3 tsp of paste to mix the green colour.
• Let the paste cool down and after cooling, make into small ball shapes by adding ghee in your palm while rolling it.
• Now roll over the balls on the powdered sugar.
• Now with the green coloured paste, shape it into leaves or stem and arrange correctly on top of the balls.
• Almond sweet is ready to be served.