Shufta Recipe

• 125 g Paneer, diced into small cubes
• 250 g Sugar
• 25 g Almonds, blanched
• 25 g Munaqqas, slit open and seeds removed
• 50 g Dry Apricots
• 50 g Dry Dates
• 25 g Dry Coconut
• 50 g Ghee
• ½ tsp Black Cardamom Powder
• ½ tsp Cinnamon Powder
• ½ tsp Ginger Powder
• ½ tsp Black Pepper Powder
• Salt, to taste

• Take a bowl and soak dry dates for an hour.
• Wash the apricots and split it into smaller pieces.
• Cut the blanched apricots in smaller pieces.
• Cut coconut and cut it into small cubes.
• Now, take a bowl and soak all the dry fruits for 2 to 3 hours before cooking.
• Take a heavy bottomed pan and fry diced paneer in it till it is golden brown in color.
• Now, add a cup of water in it and put sugar, soaked dry fruits (along with water in which it was soaked) and mix it well.
• Let it cook for around 15 minutes or till the dry fruit softens and the syrup gains a jelly like consistency.
• Add all other spices along with salt and stir again.
• Serve hot.