7 cups

7 cups of different ingredients, forming a simple & tasty sweet. I'd seen my mum & aunt make this sweet very often when I was in India. Thought of trying this out for Dasara. I added little chocolate powder to give it a different taste.

Ingredients: -

1 cup Besan

1 cup Luke warm milk

1 cup grated coconut

1.5 cups total fat 3/4th cup ghee + 3/4th cup oil

2 + 1/4 cups sugar

2 tsp cardamom

2 tsp chocolate powder

few cashew nuts

Method: -

1. Take a plate, smear butter/ghee. Keep it aside. The hot mixture will be poured on to this plate later.

2. Cut the cashew nuts into very small pieces & roasted them a little in a pan.

3. Add besan to the pan & dry roasted to remove the raw flavor.

4. Add the 7 cups (coconut, milk, sugar, ghee), chocolate powder & cardamom & stir continuously for 20 minutes till the mixture turns dark brown.

5. When the mixture turns brown, you can see holes being formed. At this moment remove from fire & pour it on to the butter/ghee smeared plate.

6. Allow it to cool for 5 minutes.

7. Cut into diamond shape & allow it to cool down completely & solidify.