Dishes we use Cashewnuts In

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The cashew nut is a favorite addition to dishes and desserts in our family. Not really a nut, it’s actually the seed of the cashew apple and hangs out from below it. While the apple finds use in wines and drinks such as the Goan feni and or in tasty Indian curries, the cashew nut (seed really) is added to dishes in whole, broken or ground form. We’ll have to thank the Portuguese for bringing this tree to India in the 16th century.

So what do we use cashewnuts in? Here’s a list of our cashew-based desserts and dishes.

Mains and Sides That have a lot of or A Little Cashewnuts

1. Beef Tongue Roast

Beef Tongue Roast is a simple and easy-to-cook recipe using a handful of ingredients. All you need is an hour and a half!

2. Beef or Ox Tongue Stir Fry with Dried Fruit

Beef or Ox Tongue Chilly fry or stir fry is a rich dish made of tongue, onions and dried fruit. Easy-to-cook, it's the recipe using a handful of ingredients. All you need is an hour and a half!

3. Traditional East Indian Wedding Rice

Wedding rice is a delicious and tasty dish served at most East Indian weddings and special functions.

4. Chicken Liver Stuffing – Giblet Pudding

The traditional East Indian stuffing for Christmas meals consist of a chicken liver and bread pudding that's stuffed into the chickens' cavity before roasting. Here's how to make this delicious homemade liver stuffing that's sometimes called a giblet stuffing.

5. Easy Burnt Onion Rice

Burnt onion rice is a different sort of tasty rice! All it needs is a few onions and a handful of nuts and you can easily eat it on its own or with chutney.

6. Spicy Brain Masala Curry – Indian Goat Brain Dish

An easy to prepare recipe for the spicy and rich East Indian Brain Masala or goat brain curry.

7. Purple Cabbage Stir Fry

Purple Cabbage Stir fry is an easy-to-make dish that can be ready in just 15 minutes. All you need is olive oil, pepper, soy sauce, and salt. Skip the sugar on the Daniel fast!

Purple cabbage stir fry with raisins and cashews

8. East Indian Stuffed Roast Chicken

Roast chicken can be stuffed with a tasty liver stuffing (giblet pudding). The glazed crispy chicken skin tastes as delicious as the juicy flesh; and carves out just perfectly!

Pickles, Chutneys and Spreads with Cashews in them

9. East Indian Wedding Pickle

Sweet, sour, salty, spicy, and tangy at the same time, the traditional East Indian wedding pickle takes a few weeks to prepare. This is our modified modern version of this mouth-watering raw papaya and carrot pickle.

10. East Indian Mango Chutney – Chunda Pickle

The East Indian Mango Chutney is a traditional chutney recipe from the Western coast of India that tastes like the Gujarati Chunda or murabba. Usually made in April or May, it lasts through the monsoon and into a bit of winter.

11. Rich Homemade Mustard Paste with Cashews

Mustard Paste is easy to make at home and is a delicious condiment that can be used for multiple dishes. Our recipe of the mustard paste is richer because we use cashewnuts in it.

12. Mom’s Green Pista Chutney

Mom makes a green pista chutney that we use as a spread for sandwiches or tortillas and as a dip for snacks. Here's how to make our version of this tasty Indian chutney.

13. East Indian Tomato Kusondi (Tomato Pickle)

The East Indian Tomato Kusondi is a tomato pickle that’s a much lovelier version of the regular Maharastrian tamtar kusandi; using almost the same ingredients, but with a lot more zing.

Desserts made with Cashews

14. Cashew Rock or Almond Rock – East Indian Version

The easier counterpart to marzipan, cashew rock or almond rock is shaped like the Indian kaju katli, but a lot tastier.

15. East Indian Cashewnut Marzipan (Christmas Dessert)

The East Indian Cashewnut Marzipan is an East Indian Christmas dessert that's moulded into the shapes of Christmas ornaments or fruits and flowers.

16. Cashewnut Marzipan Easter Eggs

East Indians traditionally make marzipan Easter eggs to celebrate the joy of Christ's resurrection. This recipe shows you how to make marzipan Easter eggs at home with cashewnut paste.

17. Glassy Tiger – Photo Credit Butterfly Conservatory

18. Sojee Sweet – Sojee Halwa Pieces – Semolina Dessert

A simple dessert made of semolina, the sojee sweet is an adordable Christmas sweet. Traditionally colored green, you'll find it on every East Indian Christmas platter.

19. Homemade Gajar Halwa

Gajar Halwa is a delicious Indian sweet dish of carrots. Eaten hot or cold, this mouth-watering dessert will keep you coming back for seconds!

20. Vegan Glutenfree Marzipan Easter Eggs

Eggless Marzipan Easter Eggs are a delicious and soft treat for Easter time! Celebrate Christs' resurrection with these delightful vegan and gluten free Paschal Eggs.

21. Dark Fruit Cake – Rich Fruit Cake

East Indian dark fruit cake is so rich and dense, you'll go back for seconds and thirds. Serve for Christmas lunch or dinner with some great homemade wine. Or serve for celebratoins and dinner parties!

22. Light Fruit Cake – Mixed Fruit Cake – Tooti Frooti Cake

Light Fruit Cake or Tooti Frooti Cake is a delicious treat for Christmas or even at tea time. So yum and fruity, you won't be able to stop at just one piece of Mixed Fruit Cake.

23. White Chocolate Mamra Munchies | Easy White Chocolate Snacks

A yummy bite of white chocolate mamra munchies that will satiate your sweet tooth. Made with puffed rice and nuts in 15 minutes, these easy homemade snacks are a tad healthy too!

24. Pumpkin Halwa (Kaddu ka Halwa)

Kaddu ha halwa is a delicious pumpkin Indian dessert that is quick and easy to make. The perfect heartwarming use of a winter sqaush.

25. Bottle gourd Halwa (Dudhi or Lauki ka Halwa)

Bottle gourd halwa is a traditional Indian mithai that is very easy to make, and tastes delicious hot or cold.

2 servings of bottle gourd halwa in white bowls.

26. Lightning McQueen Checkerboard Sponge Cake

A checkerboard sponge cake shaped in the form of Lightning McQueen. Kids who watch Disney's Cars movies will love this cake.

27. Indian Custard Powder Halwa (Dessert)

The Indian Custard Powder Halwa is an easy to make sweet using just custard powder or cornflour, sugar, ghee and nuts.

28. Dairy free Gluten free Khajur Dry Fruit Barfi

An Indian dry fruit barfi made mainly of khajur or dates that is dairy free, gluten free and sugar free.

29. Sugarfree Anjeer Barfi – Indian Fig Dessert

Anjeer barfi or fig barfi is a traditional Indian dry fruit barfi that's rich to taste and full of nutty flavor. Here is our version of it, a sugar free gluten free anjeer barfi.

30. Pancakes with Coconut Filling – Elijao

The thin traditional pancakes made by the East Indian community of Mumbai are different from regular pancakes. But these tasty coconut-filled sweet pancakes (elijao) are a delight to eat!

How many of these yummy dishes do you make too? And what else do you add cashewnuts to? Comment and let us know!

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