This week's addition to the blog has been specifically requested by my Mum, and is non other than 'Coconut Indian Sweet.' We first made this Indian style sweet over ten tears ago, when we first started to visit Rusholme in Manchester on a regular basis, for all our Indian cooking supplies.
Most Saturdays we would go there to do our shopping, followed by a curry, and a trip to the Indian Sweet Shop. Rows of multi-coloured sweets filled the windows, and the wonderful smell of cardamom and sugar filled the air. It wasn't long before we wanted our weekend fix on say, a Wednesday. This is where we started to get creative.
This recipe is one that I remember very well from an Indian cookbook, and even though I hadn't cooked it for years it came back to me as soon as I started to melt the butter in the pan. Once done, you simply pour in dessicated coconut and stir, until it takes on the yellow tint of the butter. I then added condensed milk, and kept stiring for about ten minutes when the mixture starts to stick together...a lot like a fudge. I then proceeded to empty the coconut mixture in to a lined baking tray, and press down with a back of a spoon.
Once the cooling process was completed, all I had to do was cut the pieces into little rectangles and display. I chose to keep the coconut sweet in its original colour, although you can put a few drops of pink food colouring to half the mixture for variety.
The finished result was impressive without a lot of effort! It didn't taste exactly like the Indian sweets that you get on the curry mile in Manchester, but then it never did. What it did taste like was pure yummy coconut flavoured nostalgia! In the future I would like to have a go at making some Indian sweets that taste more authentic, but I imagine this takes years of practice. For a mid week Indian sweet fix though, this recipe scores very highly.
Next week I will attempting something more complex, as I will be back to my kitchen comforts in the UK.
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