Healthy Food Recipes - Badam Barfi (Almond Fudge)
Posted on: 02/Jan/2015 9:54:53 AM
Ingredients:
- Badam – 1 cup
- Sugar – 1 cup
- Ghee – 5 Spoon
- Milk – 50 ml / ¼ Cup
- Cardamom powder – a pinch
Method:
- Soak almond for about 5 hours in water.
- Then remove its skin and grind well in a mixer along with milk to a fine paste.
- Heat the pan and add a cup of sugar and add water in such a quantity that it should immerse the entire sugar and allow it to boil well.
- Once sugar dissolved (the state of thin rod), add the Badam paste and stir well.
- Keep on stirring until, the content will be of thicker consistency without sticking on to the bottom of the vessel.
- Now add the ghee and a pinch of cardamom powder and mix well.
- In a 10 to 15 minutes, you will get a thicker consistent state of the mix.
- Allow it to cook for about 10 minutes and keep a greased plate ready. Pour the almond mix into the prepared plate 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:
- Since almond is very nutritious for children, this is an apt dish for the children evening snacks or you can also it to them as a school snacks.
- You can easily prepare this dish during festival season, as it is less time consuming and very healthy too.
- If you forget to soak the almonds for 5 hours, no worries just soak almonds for 1 hour in hot water.
- If you want the dish to be sweeter more, just add more sugar than the equal ratio.
- You will 200 grams of sweet from just 100 grams of almonds, thus you will not be in the urge to sweet stall during the festive season.
- You can save your money and time, and get a homemade healthy and clean sweet for our family!
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
