Coconut Burfi (Barfi) Recipe
Posted on 30. Jul, 2010 by Uma in Desserts
Coconuts are an easily available commodity in the coastal areas of India, and the fleshy white inside of the nuts are used to make sweet dessert dishes for all occasions. Burfi or Barfi is a sweet preparation made using many different types of ingredients, mostly in India and Pakistan. Coconut Barfis are especially common in South India.
Servings: 8
Cooking Time: 30 minutes
Ingredients:
Medium Sized Coconut: 2
Refined Sugar: 400 grams
Ghee or Clarified butter: 40 grams
Cardamom: 3
Colour powder: 1/2 teaspoon (optional)
Method:
Grate coconut using a coconut grater (or purchase grated unsweetened coconut) and set aside. Powder the cardamom and grease a plate with a little ghee.
Take a thick-bottomed vessel and add the grated coconut and sugar. Place on high flame and stir for 5 minutes. Reduce the flame to medium and add the ghee, cardamom powder and the colour powder and stir continuously for another 10 minutes. The coconut – sugar mixture should begin to leave the sides of the vessel and come together with a ball-like consistency, and a sweet aroma should fill the room. The mixture will be very sticky.
Remove from heat and pour into the greased plate. Flatten with a wooden spatula . Allow to cool for 10 minutes and cut into squares. This sweet dessert can be stored for up to 10 days or so without refrigeration.
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saraswathi
Jun 21st, 2011
Mentioning the quantity of ingredients in grams is Highly INCONVENIENT. All houses will not have weighing scale handy. You are restricting hits to your site. Please mention the quantity requires in cups or teaspoons instead of grams
Uma
Jun 22nd, 2011
Hi, When you want to make certain items like laddu etc, you definitely need to measure the ingredients in exact quantities. It is necessary to have a weighing scale for any one who wants to make special dishes. More over weighing scale is not expensive. !
Uma
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Oct 25th, 2011
[...] and I usually start cooking days in advance. Yesterday, we made a couple dishes– nimkis, coconut barfi, and lakdi mithai (they are stick looking sweet dishes made with dough, cut in thin slices, fried [...]
Jai
May 10th, 2012
I tried to get the recipe of Coconut Burfi from several places. But I am getting different methods.
How Can I get an authentic one?????
Uma
May 10th, 2012
Try to make small quantities of Coconut Burfi in different methods and you will know surely what is the “authentic” method.! You can try my recipe too and tell me.
Uma
selvam
Jun 11th, 2013
cool