Delicious melt in mouth chickpea flour fudge,a traditional South Indian Sweet
Today is Holi, the festival of color. I was born and brought up in southern part of India where Holi is not an important festival. I have never played Holi, but has watched hero-heroines playing Holi in Hindi movies. On the day of Holi, everybody will wear white clothes and roam around; they get showered by different colors. Now every festival means lot of recipes are tried and posted by bloggers, my Facebook feed is overdone by Holi recipes, and then I thought why I am behind in the game, I will also join the fun so made this 7 cup burfi.
This is really a simple recipe, just like in pound cake, everything is measured in pounds, this recipe also has every ingredient measured in cup, and when you count everything you will get 7 cup. However mine is less than 7 cup as I didn’t want to use 3 cup of sugar it will be too much sugar, I used only 2 ¼ cup so my recipe will be 6 ¾ cup burfi.
I settled with this recipe only because of simplicity, as I have already posted other Holi recipes, like Mawa Gujiya and Thandai. Next in my list is Dahi vada, making is easy only need to make green and tamarind chutney beforehand. As usual, I check with Google to find a good recipe, and I found lot variations, some are roasting besan first, then some are adding everything at first and cook. After watching of lot of YouTube video, I found a Telugu TV channel, where the chef was heating the ghee first and then adding besan and mixing everything. It is good trick as besan will not remain raw taste and also without any lumps. So I followed his idea.
I am a diehard fan of Mysore Pak, yes most amazing sweet according to me. This one I can say that is it is cousin of Mysore Pak. In Mysore-pak there is only sugar, ghee and besan. Where as in this 7 cup burfi, almond meal, milk and coconut also join the fun. It is delicious, and also easier to make than Mysore-pak as you don’t need to worry about the sugar thread consistency, just mix in and cook it in low flame with constant stirring. That is important don’t skip that part.
With this I also try to make a video with I phone, still I am in the learning process so I appreciate if you leave your valuable comments to get how to improve. I didn’t put any ingredients list, that I will do it from next recipes on wards.
Till then enjoy this delicious melt in mouth 7 cup burfi.
Delicious 7 cup burfi a traditional sweet from southern part of India.
Ingredients
- 1 cup besan/chickpea flour
- 1 cup desiccated coconut
- 1 cup Ghee
- 2 ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup almond meal
- 1 cup Milk
- 4 pods of cardamom crushed
Instructions
- Grease a 9x9 inch baking pan with ghee and set aside.
- Heat ghee in the thick bottomed pan
- Then add besan and mix well with whisk or spatula until everything combined without any lumps.
- Then add sugar, almond meal and desiccated coconut and mix well.
- Now it becomes crumbs like this .
- The add milk and it will gets liquid like this
- Continuously stir and cook until it gets thick
- Then add crushed cardamom pods.
- Continue to cook in low flame with constant string until you get thick mass like this which leaves from the side of the pan. It takes about 45-55 minutes in low flame.
- Transfer to the prepared baking pan and level it
- Then make a mark with knife into desired shape while it is warm.
- Let it cool for another hour and enjoy as much you want.
- Serve warm, if you have any left over, make sure to store it in refrigerator as it has milk.
Notes
Copyright ©2016 Zesty South Indian Kitchen by Swathi( Ambujom Saraswathy) All Rights Reserved
Here is the Mysore pak
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This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Mullai Madavan says
Bookmarking this recipe Swathi, fudge looks so soft and I'm going to try it!
Suja Manoj says
Wow looks so yummy, will surely try this.
tigerfish says
I always love the aroma of cardamon and it makes desserts and treats exotic.
Winnie says
These look incredible!! I've never tasted something like this 🙂
I enjoyed reading this post - love to learn of traditions
kushi says
WOW! That looks so perfect and delicious!
Nalini Somayaji says
excellent 7 cup burfi with almond meal..perfect and inviting....
Anu - My Ginger Garlic Kitchen says
Love this delicious looking 7cup burfi. Lovely share!
Jean says
Swathi, this recipe fascinates me. I must give it a try one day when I'm feeling interesting and exotic!
Swathi says
Jean this one is easy and tasty if you like Indian sweets give it a try.
beena says
Tempting burji. Love it
Priya says
I haave tried this one time but don't know what happened my flour started burning burning i think that is because gram flour burns quickly😴hoping good for next ex0erimemt.
Swathi says
Next time try with low heat may be number 1. then it won't burn.
Rafeeda says
Oh... I wish I could grab that burfi now... looks so good...
marudhuskitchen says
burfi looks perfect...always love this kind of sweets
Swathi says
Thanks Vani
Hadia says
The Chickpea flour fudge looks so inviting, Swathi. And congrats on your first food video. That is interesting. Pinning and tweeting