Sep 7, 2011

coconut Burfi/Thenga burfi


I made these burfi couple of week back. Just after the varalakshmi Vratam, I had so much coconut (we buy atleast two -one for kalasam & one for naivedhyam). My husband and my girls never take coconut. I was literally wasting two coconuts and I don't use coconut in my cooking. Thought of making this burfi and called my chitti for the recipe. Here foes the recipe.

Ingredients:-
  1. Coconut - 1 cup (shredded)
  2. Sugar - 1 I/2 cup (acc to taste)
  3. Cardamom - 1
  4. Edible Camphor / Pachakarpooram - a pinch
  5. Milk - 2 tsp
  6. Ghee 2 tsp

Take a heavy bottomed pan, add the sugar and required amount of water (i took 3/4 cup of water for 1 1/2 cups of sugar) and let it boil.  Milk is used to remove dirt from sugar syrup. When it starts boiling, just add it. White foamy stuff will form. Thats dirt. Remove it. Add the cardamom seeds and pacha karpooram to it. Look for one string consistency.  If you touch the sugar syrup(be careful it will be super hot), it should form a single line. Now add the shredded coconut to it and mix it well and make sure no lumps are formed. Add ghee to it and spread it in a flat plate and cut it when it is warm. Enjoy. I added 1 1/2 cups of sugar to it. If necessary we can always reduce the quantity of sugar. I made this sweet especially for myself ! So I didn't bother to reduce the quantity of sugar :)

8 comments:

Prema said...

wow they turned perfect dear,luks delicious...

Indian Khana said...

Love this n you have made is so perfect ...yum

Raks said...

never tried adding edible camphor to this so far,looks and sounds perfect!

Pushpa said...

Delicious sweet chewing on the subtle coconut is my most fav part of eating this.

TestingSalesforce said...

wow . sooper one yaar. Am 5ne ow are you

Priya Suresh said...

My most favourite burfi,feel like munching some..

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