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Burfi

A South Asian dessert of khoya, pista and edible silver foil, flavoured with cardamom.

20 min · Serves 6 · Easy

Serves
6

Ingredients

Time
Prep 20 min · 20 min total
Difficulty
easy
  1. 1

    Mix grated khoya to the sugar and cook on a slow fire till the mixture is semi-solid. Remove from the fire. When cold, mix in the cardamom powder and spread the mixture evenly on a greased metal tray.

  2. 2

    Sprinkle cardamom powder and chopped pista all over and press silver sheets on the mixture.

  3. 3

    Cut into medium sized squares when set. By adding few ingredients to the basic khoya burfi, cashew burfi, almond burfi, pista burfi can also be made.

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