kesar Anjeer Roll

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kesar Anjeer Roll

Description

Cooking Time

Preparation Time :1 Hr 0 Min

Cook Time : 20 Min

Total Time : 1 Hr 20 Min

Ingredients

Serves : 18
  • 250 gm : Semi dried Figs


  • 4 tbsp : Sugar


  • 1 cup : Warm milk


  • 1 tbsp : Ghee divided


  • 165 gm : Almonds powdered


  • 1 cup : Milk


  • 1 cup : Sugar


  • 1 tbsp : Ghee divided


  • 3/4 cup : Broken cashew


  • 8 to 10 Saffron strands


  • 3 to 4 drops each yellow and Green food colors


  • 3 tbsp : Dry roasted Poppy seeds

Directions

  • To a blender jar add the ground almonds and milk. Blend until smooth.
  • Heat a non stick pan with a tsp of ghee and add the ground almond paste. Cook on low heat for couple of minutes.
  • Stir in the sugar and mix until dissolved.
  • Adding ghee in intervals and stirring regularly cook until it forms a non sticky dough.
  • Scoop it out and Divide this into two equal portions. To one part add the broken cashews and few drops of yellow food color along a pinch of saffron. Give this a good mix until uniform.
  • To another half add the green food color and mix well to incorporate.
  • Shape the yellow nutty dough to a log of 30 cm and set aside.
  • Roll out a rectangular sheet of the green mixture placing in between parchment sheets.
  • Place the kesar cashew log over the green almond sheet and roll them tight resembling a log again.
  • Wrap it with cling film until the Anjeer layer gets done.
  • For the Anjeer layer, To a blender jar add the semi dried figs, 4 tbsp of sugar and a cup of warm milk and this a good blend until soft and paste like.
  • Heat a non stick pan with a tsp of ghee and add the fig paste to it.
  • Stirring in regular intervals cook this mixture on medium heat adding the remaining ghee until it forms a non sticky dough.
  • Invert in on to a parchment and roll out to semi thin rectangular sheet.
  • Unwrap the green and kesar almond log and place over the fig sheet.
  • Holding the edge parchment roll this to a tight log.
  • Spread the dry roasted poppy seeds at one side of the log and roll it over to coat the log with these seeds.
  • Wrap it with a cling film and place in refrigerator for an hour or so.
  • Once it turns firm to touch slice it to discs and serve!
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