Certainly one of the more favored dessert items of my mother-in-law's collections is this rather simple Burfi or Barfi recipe. Homemade is just soooo much better than the store bought. These you will see displayed in cases in Indian Sweetmeat shops in an array of colours and flavours.Ingredients for Burfi
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1 lb. container Ricotta cheese
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg powder
- 1/2 tsp. cardamon powder
- 3 cups powdered milk (please...use skim with all these fattening ingredients!)
Garnish
- 1 oz. chopped almonds
- 1 oz. chopped pistachios, few strands of saffron, edible silver paper (good luck finding that last item...and there IS such a thing!)
Melt butter in a saucepan, add cheese and cook over medium heat for 7 minutes
- Add sugar, nutmeg and cardamon and cook for a further 5 minutes until the mixture leaves the sides of the pot.
- Add powdered milk gradually and cook for a further 3 minutes.
- Pour the mixture into a greased 8" x 8" cake pan.
- Sprinkle nuts and saffron and or edible silver paper on top.
When cold cut into squares or rectangular pieces as desired. Serve with Chai Tea and enjoy...REAL Chai Tea recipe coming up.......