coconut barfi recipe, how to make coconut barfi

Prep Time

5 mins

Cook Time

25 mins

Total Time

30 mins

Ingredients (1 cup = 250 ml)

• ½ cup besan (gram flour) OR 50 grams besan
• ½ cup fresh coconut OR 35 grams fresh coconut
• ½ cup ghee OR 100 to 110 grams ghee
• ½ cup milk
• 1.25 cups sugar OR 200 to 210 grams sugar
• ½ teaspoon cardamom powder (choti elaichi powder)

How to make recipe

1. take all the ingredients and keep them ready.
2. grease a tray or a pan with some ghee.
3. heat a heavy iron kadai or pan. keep the flame to a low and add ½ cup besan or gram fl g7our.
4. stir often and roast the besan for 3 to 4 minutes or till you get a nice nutty aroma from it.
5. do not brown the besan. also stir continuously while roasting besan.
6. once the besan becomes aromatic, then add ½ cup fresh coconut, ½ cup ghee and ½ cup milk.
7. mix very well.
8. then add 1.25 cups sugar and ½ teaspoon cardamom powder.
9. mix again very well and stir so that the sugar dissolves. the mixture will also become liquid like.
10. keep on stirring and cooking on a low flame.
11. the mixture will begin to thicken and reduce.
12. continue to cook and stir till the mixture leaves the sides of the pan. while stirring also scrape the bottom of the kadai and the sides. if you do not scrape, then the mixture starts sticking and gets browned or burnt. soyou have to non stop stir and scrape. do use flat steel spatula (palta) as this helps in scraping the besan mixture.
13. even after leaving the sides of the pan, continue to cook till you see ghee releasing from the sides. when the barfi mixture looks like one molten mass with some bubbles and ghee releasing from the sides, then switch off the flame. if you cook too much, then the barfi will become hard and crumbly.
14. immediately pour the entire barfi mixture in the greased tray or pan.
15. with a spatula or spoon, even and smoothen the top.
16. let the barfi become warm or cool down at room temperature.
17. then cut with a sharp knio reduce the sugar to 1 cup
18. offer the 7 cup barfi to the deities or serve as a sweet.
19. Recipe Notes

    • recipe can be doubled, but will involve more handwork.
    • you can use desiccated coconut instead of fresh coconut. with desiccated coconut, the cooking time will be less. 
    • you can also reduce the sugar to 1 cup.