Badam Deep

इस व्यंजन को हिन्दी में पढ़ें

Badam Deep is an edible sweet deeps or diyas made for Diwali, a festival of lights. Deep or Diya is a Hindi word meaning a small clay lamp. Here we are making mind blowing edible diyas with almonds. These diyas are very beautiful to look at and delicious to savor. These edible diyas are a healthy dessert option for the festive season! The idea of making edible diyas was shared by Ms. Poornima Varman, the editor of weekly Hindi magazine "ABHIVYAKTI" http://www.abhivyakti-hindi.org/. I am the food editor of Abhivyakti magazine. So, thanks a lot to Poornima ji for this wonderful idea and a very happy Diwali to you all! Please do try these edible diya recipe this Diwali and do share your suggestions and comments. Happy Diwali, Shuchi

Preparation Time: 5 minutes
cooking time: 12 minutes

Approximately 75 calories in each diya

Ingredients (makes about 11 deeps)

Almonds 1 cup / 150 gms
Brown sugar ½ cup/ 100 gms
Water 3 tbsp
Orange food color 2-4 drops

Ingredients to decorate the deeps

Khoya (thickened milk) 2 tbsp
Ground sugar 1 tsp
Almonds cut into long strips
Raisins 11
Saffron (Amazon link for Organic Saffron) threads 11

Method of preparation

Clean and grind the almonds (with outer skin intact) in a grinder. Make a smooth powder of the almonds. Keep aside.
In a wok/pan boil sugar and water. After the first boil reduce the heat and boil the sugar syrup till it gets thickened and makes two string syrup. A two string syrup means that you take a drop of syrup between your two fingers and then stretch the fingers - if the syrup that sticks between the two fingers is making two threads (or strings) then the thickness of syrup is appropriate. Takes about 3-4 mins to make the sugar syrup.
Add 2-4 drops of orange food color in the sugar syrup and mix well.

sugar syrup after adding 4 drops of orange food color

Remove the wok from heat and add almond powder in the sugar syrup. Stir well. Put the wok back on the heat and cook the mixture on very low heat until the almond paste starts leaving the sides. (Takes about 2 minutes)

After about 2 minutes of cooking of almond powder in sugar syrup.

Let the almond mixture cool a bit. At this point the almond mifture will look like a dough ball.

Mixture is ready to shape

Divide the almond dough into 11 portions. Grease your hand and take a portion and shape it to diya or deep.
Shape all the portions into diyas.

To decorate the diyas

Grate the khoya (thickened milk). Add ground sugar. Mix well.
Fill a little bit of khoya sugar mixture in the diya.
Put a long almond strip at the end point of the diya.
Cut a slit on the raisin and stick it on the almond.
Put a saffron thread on top of the almond to give an appearance of heat.

Some Tips/ Suggestions

When sugar melts in the khoya it gives a look of natural diya (seems like ghee is melting).
Raisins give the feel of flame and saffron gives the feel of heat.
In case if the almond mix gets cold and it is hard to shape diyas, warm the almond mix for few seconds and reshape.
You can also make green diyas from pistachios, walnut diyas, chocolate diyas, coconut diyas etc....

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