Cashews have always enjoyed a special place on the festive platter. And with November 23, being marked as National Cashew Day in America, it’s a good reason to find out more about this nutty ingredient that has so many avatars – used in sweets, fried as a salty, savoury snack, transformed into a thick paste to lend texture to rich aromatic Indian graveries, roasted and consumed as a quick bite to go or distilled and bottled to create Goa’s famous cashew feni. The cashew nut has a huge fan following in culinary circles because of its versatility.
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