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Prep Time5 mins
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Cook Time25 mins
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Serving
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Ingredients
1/2 cup besan (gram flour) or 50 grams besan
1/2 cup fresh coconut or 35 grams fresh coconut
1/2 cup Ghee or 100 to 110 grams ghee (clarified butter)
1/2 cup milk
1.25 cups sugar or 200 to 210 grams sugar
1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder
Direction
1. Take all the ingredients and keep them ready - 1/2 cup of besan
1/2 cup grated coconut
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup ghee and 1.25 cups sugar. You can also use 1 cup sugar.
2. Grease a tray or a pan with some ghee.
roasting gram flour
1. Heat a heavy iron kadai or pan. Keep the flame to a low and add 1/2 cup besan or gram flour.
2. Stir often and roast the besan for 3 to 4 minutes or till you get a nice nutty aroma from it.
3. Do not brown the besan. Also stir continuously while roasting besan.
making 7 cup burfi
1. Once the besan becomes aromatic
then add 1/2 cup fresh coconut
1/2 cup ghee and 1/2 cup milk.
2. Mix very well.
3. Then add 1.25 cups sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder.
4. Mix again very well and stir so that the sugar dissolves. The mixture will also become liquid like.
5. Keep on stirring and cooking on a low flame.
6. The mixture will begin to thicken and reduce.
7. Continue to cook and stir till the mixture leaves the sides of the pan. While stirring also scrape the bottom of the kadai and the sides. If you do not scrape
then the mixture starts sticking and gets browned or burnt. So you have to non stop stir and scrape. do use flat steel spatula (palta) as this helps in scraping the besan mixture.
8. Even after leaving the sides of the pan
Continue to cook till you see ghee releasing from the sides. When the burfi mixture looks like one molten mass with some bubbles and ghee releasing from the sides
then switch off the flame.
9. If you cook too much
then the burfi will become hard and crumbly.
setting the 7 cup burfi
1. Immediately pour the entire burfi mixture in the greased tray or pan.
2. With a spatula or spoon
even and smoothen the top.
3. Let the burfi become warm or cool down at room temperature.
4. Then cut with a sharp knife and serve 7 cup burfi or store in an air-tight box. You can keep the barfi at room temperature in a cold season for a couple of days or refrigerate.
5. Offer the 7 cup burfi to the deities or serve as a sweet.