Almond Cream Sweetmeat Recipe (Barfi Badam)

Almond Cream Sweetmeat Recipe (Barfi Badam)
Ingredients : (Makes about 16 pieces)
4 cups 3/4 cup 125 g 2 tablespoons	Milk Sugar Blanched almonds pulverized in blender, or 1 cup ground almond Blanched pistachio nuts Pinch of ground cardamom
Method : In a heavy-based saucepan or large frying pan, boil the milk over fairly high heat, stirring all the time until it is reduced and very thick. Add sugar and stir for 10 minutes on low heat. Add the ground almonds and continue to cook and stir until the mixture comes away from sides and base of pan in one mass. Remove from heat, sprinkle cardamom over and mix well. Turn on to a greased plate. Smooth top with back of buttered spoon. Cool slightly, mark in diamond shapes with knife and decorate with halved pistachio nuts. Before it is quite firm, cut with sharp knife along the markings. Allow to get quite cold before separating into pieces.