Soft mango fudge from The Complete Indian Regional Cookbook: 300 Classic Recipes from the Great Regions of India by Mridula Baljekar

Soft mango fudge from The Complete Indian Regional Cookbook: 300 Classic Recipes from the Great Regions of India by Mridula Baljekar

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This fruity sweetmeat is a recreation of a very old recipe by a prominent Assamese housewife called Dhanada Kumari Saikia. This version, Aamor Haluwa, produces

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Ingredients

  • 22.5 ml/1½ tbsp shelled pistachio nuts, lightly roasted and crushed
  • 30 ml/2 tbsp rose water
  • 300 ml/½ pint/1¼ cups sweetened mango purée or 2 x 400 g/14 oz cans of sliced mango, drained and puréed
  • 115 g/4 oz/½ cup ground almonds
  • 50 g/2 oz/½ cup raw cashew nuts, chopped
  • 115 g/4 oz/⅔ cup semolina
  • 115 g/4 oz/½ cup ghee or unsalted butter
  • a good pinch of saffron threads, pounded
  • 125 g/4¼ oz/scant ¾ cup caster (superfine) sugar

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