A Great Barfi Recipe To Lighten Up Your Mood

Posted by Gauri Satpute on August 22nd, 2019

India is a country where many people reside together and all of them have some specific preference for food. Thus, to meet the vast food preferences there are several sweet desserts available in the country. One of them is the delightful barfi recipe which you can find online.

As the Indian tradition goes, people mainly prefer to make sweets at home except for the Gulab jamun or the jalebi. But when it comes to barfi, nothing is better than a homemade one. This is why there are many barfi recipe (s) available online.

Certain things remain constant in the recipe of barfi and these are sugar and of course condensed milk. Barfi is nothing but the Indian form of milk fudge. Other than the condensed milk and sugar, there are other ingredients used as well and that differs from place to place, region to region and of course from one household to the other.

How to get the barfi recipe right?

There is a technique which is a must follow when you are preparing or cooking the barfi. The one and the most important thing that you should keep in mind is that the barfi should be cooked until the time it takes to become solid. Once it reaches this consistency, you can turn off the heat and let it cool down a bit. Then you can cut it into the shapes you prefer, generally, barfi(s) are cut into diamond-shaped pieces.

Some people use edible silver on top of the barfi. The name barfi came from the Persian word “barf” which means snow. The sweet is named so because initially, this sweet was made white, which is the color of the snow.

Let’s start with the simple and the easiest and the delicious barfi recipe

To make the simple milk barfi, the ingredients you need are powdered milk, raw milk, ghee or clarified butter, rose water and sugar. You can select your choice of nuts for the garnish.

The first thing to start with is the ghee in a pan and add the powdered milk to it. Stir well for a minute or two then add in the raw milk and stir. After a while add in the sugar and a hint of rose water to the mixture and cook it for some good seven minutes on medium heat. Do not forget to stir. Wait till the mixture to thicken and then transfer the mixture to a pan brushed with ghee. Let this cool down before you serve it.

The author is a blogger and writes on different classic Indian dishes. Here the delicious and simple barfi recipe is laid down by her which is easy to cook.