Healthy Food Recipes - Coconut Rava Burfi
Posted on: 15/Dec/2014 5:37:30 PM
Ingredients:
- Grated Coconut – 1 cup
- Rava – 1 cup
- Sugar – 1 cup
- Ghee – 5 Spoons
- Cashew nuts – 10 nos
- Salt – To taste
- Cardamom Powder – little
Method:
- Grind the cashew nuts to a fine powder and keep it aside.
- Heat the ghee in a non-stick pan, roast the rava separately and keep it aside.
- In a pan take the sugar, add enough water (just the sugar gets dissolve) and bring to boil. Remove the impurities if any.
- Then continue cooking the sugar, till you get a one thread consistency.
- Now add the roasted rava and stir well without any formation of the cramps.
- Add the cashew nut powder to it.
- It’s time to add the grated coconut and add a pinch of salt to it.
- Mix everything well and sprinkle the cardamom powder and add 3 spoons of ghee to it.
- Stir the mix for every two minutes, so that not to allow it to be sticky on the pan.
- Allow it to cook for about 10 minutes and keep a greased plate ready. Pour the coconut mix into the prepared plate and garnish the roasted cashews on the top and press in gently. Allow it to cool for some time.
- Make marks on top when it is hot, else it will be tough to break into pieces once the burfi sets.
- Once it sets for half an hour, you can bring them into pieces and store it in an air tight container.
Notes:
- This is an apt dish for the children evening snacks or you can also it to them as a school snacks.
- In our day to day life, we are using coconut in various forms – we are including coconut in many dishes, apply coconut oil on our skin and on our hair and so on.
- Though we are employing coconut in many forms, the good fat in coconut will turn out to be a bad one after cooking. Hence keep in mind that you should cook the coconut for longer duration.
- Instead of cooking with coconut, you can simply add it to chutney items.
- Augment the intake of raw coconut milk daily, as it has the potent to slay stomach worms and cure stomach ulcer.
- The calcium content in coconut, is very good for strengthening bones.
- It has the potent to strengthen both the blood nerves in our body.
- Since coconut has high immune power, it is highly advisable to include it more often for children, it may shield them from frequent cold and fever infections.
- Coconut has the potency to treat several heart related illness.
- The fat content in coconut plays a major part in protecting the blood pipes from bursting.
- So as the get rid of stomach worms, and to cure both the stomach and mouth ulcers, it is good to intake raw coconut milk in empty stomach.
- M>Monolaurin, the compound essential for elevating immune system, is better present in the coconut.
- Thus by consuming coconut, will increase the immune power and reduce the blood pressure.
- Mother’s breast milk ranks top in the list that augments essential nutrients and body immune system for babies. In this way, coconut milk ranks second in augmenting body’s immune system.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
