Here is one of the easiest recipes that you’ll ever find. It’s for a delicious Indian dessert (or snack) sweet and, as usual, you can see the recipe for Jaggery Caramlized Walnut on the Curry Focus website. If you’re not sure what jaggery is then you can check out an article here.
The only two ingredients are jaggery and walnut halves.
You use about twice as much jaggery as walnuts and the Curry Focus recipe has 2 oz of walnut halves and 3 ½ oz of jaggery, and these are good amounts to use first.
I bought the jaggery from my usual Indian supermarket where it is sold in 1 lb balls or blocks.
I carefully sliced off the required amount of jaggery from the ball (being careful with a knife on a round object is a good idea), chopped it up a bit and then put it into a small saucepan over a low to medium heat.
Whilst the jaggery was melting, I put some greaseproof paper over a dinner plate.
The jaggery needs to be stirred regularly and prodded with a wooden spoon to take out any remaining lumps.
Once the jaggery was melted, I added the walnuts and quickly mixed the two ingredients together and made sure that the walnuts were fully covered with the jaggery.
Then I poured the mixture onto the greaseproof paper and spread the walnuts out evenly with the back of the stirring spoon.
The jaggery-coated walnuts were then put into a cupboard for a while until they cooled.
Once the caramelized walnuts had cooled, I broke them up into pieces and stored them in an airtight jar until they are needed and stored the leftover jaggery ball in another airtight jar.
It’s really as easy as that.
I serve the caramelized walnuts in a little side plate at the end of an Indian meal. The walnuts are very sweet and most people can only eat one piece.
Try it. It’s delicious.