Kitchen Tantra

Kamarkat:(Country Style)

Hard caramalized Candy. Hard Home-Made Candy. Country Candy.

Ingredients:

Very finely grated coconut - 1 cup
Jaggery 2 cups (Indian brown sugar)
Cardamon seeds powder 1/2 spoon(optional)
Ginger juice 1/4 cup
Ghee 1/2 cup.

Method:

In a kettle, add 1/2 cup of water and boil it. To this add jaggery + cardamon seeds powder.

Wait until they dissolve and comes to boiling stage. Now filter them.

In a heavy bottomed, non-stick or preferably bronze vessel. Heat few spoons of ghee.

Add coconut to it. Fry for few seconds and add the boiled & filtered jaggery to it.

Set the stove in low-medium heat. Using a woodespatula/rod.....constantly stir the mixture.

Let them get caramalized. Occasionally stir in ghee, whenever needed.

Once it comes to semi-solid stage. Remove from stove.

Gheeze your hands with ghee and while they are still hot....Make small candy sized balls out of it.

Spread these candies on a plate/sheet. Allow them to cool to room temperature.

Store them as such in an air-tight container.

Or wrap each candy with individual plastic sheet/butter sheet. Twist the butter-sheets end....like in a candy. Then store in an air-tight container.