Thengai Burfi (coconut Burfi)

For  25 pieces

Ingredients:
Coconut grated 1
Sugar 3 cups
Ghee 1 cup
Cardamom powder 1 tsp
Cashew nut 1 cup

Method:
Soak Cashew nut in hot water for 10 minutes and grind it to a paste.
Grate coconut and make a paste of it.
Keep a plate greased with a teaspoon of ghee ready and keep aside.
Add the cashew nut paste, coconut paste with sugar, ghee in a heavy bottomed vessel and mix well.
Keep stirring, add green cardamom ones it starts boiling.
Keep stirring till the semisolid paste leaves the sides.
Put the semisolid paste  to the greased plate and level it with a bottom of a greased stainless cup.
Keep aside for 10 minutes and cut into the required shape of burfi. Either into squares or diamonds.
Note: The ratio of coconut to the sugar is 1:1. For 3 cups of coconut it is 3 cups of sugar and 1 cup ghee.