Coconut Burfi

Coconut Burfi

Ingredients: Serve - 2

• Coconut – 1 cup
• Water – 1cup
• Sugar – 1 cup
• Cardamom powder – 1/2tspn
• Cashew Nuts – 5
• Method:
  
  1. Wash and grate the coconut.
  2. Take a plate, apply ghee and keep aside.
  3. Take a pan, add water and boil for 3 minutes in a medium flame.(figure 1)
  4. Add sugar and saute continuously until water density becomes thick. Take a drop of water in hand and test its thickness as shown in figure 3. When you observe water coming out as single string then  syrup is ready. (figure 2 & 3)
  5. After getting good consistency reduce the flame to low immediately add cardamom powder, grated coconut and mix well.(figure 4)
  6. Next continuously saute for 5 minutes or until coconut is mixed well in syrup. (figure 5)
  7. Now add coconut mixture to the plate which has been prepared in step 2, spread evenly and cut into cubes with knife. Apply ghee to the knife just to ensure syrup doesn't stick with knife (figure 6)
  8. Garnish with roasted  cashew nuts and leave it to cool down for at-least 1 hour.
  9. Remove the coconut burfi from plate slowly and serve as it.