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Indian Cooking Recipe : How to Make Coconut Burfi

Ingredients for the Recipe

  • 3 cups coconut gratings
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 4 tsp ghee
  • 3 cardamom pods
  • 15 cashewnuts

Recipe (How to Make):

  1. Grind coconut gratings with cashewnut bits, without adding water.
  2. Mix sugar with ½ cup of water in a vessel and heat till syrup is formed that can be drawn into strings.
  3. Add the ground mixture to the syrup and turn over constantly till the blend thickens a bit.
  4. Then add 2 tsps ghee and continue turning over till it forms a lump. Remove from flame.
  5. Flatten the blend on a wooden board, smeared with ghee, evenly to ¾" thickness.
  6. Cut into pieces of desired size of square/diamond shape, using a spatula (or dosa lifter), when still warm.
  7. Separate the pieces and store in a container, when cool.