Mango Barfi
Mango Burfi is a soft, melt-in-mouth, fudgy texture Indian sweet. This Burfi is made of milk, paneer, mango puree, flavored with cardamom powder and decorated with pistachios.
Ingredients:
Serves 4
- 4 cups full fat milk
- ⅔ cup superfine (powdered) sugar
- 5 cardamoms
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp lemon juice or
- 1 cup mango pure
- 6 oz/175 g paneer
- pinch of cinnamon powder (optional)
- few drops vanilla esence (optional)
- chopped almonds, pistachios to decorate
How to make Mango Barfi:
- Pour the milk into the non-stick pan and bring to boil.
- Add cardamoms, sugar and cook for 4 minutes on medium flame.
- Add lemon juice and continue cooking stirrlng constantly until the mixture become thick.
- Add the mango pure and cook for another 5 minutes. After that test if the mixture is thick enough by putting some on the plate. If should form a soft ball.
- Then remove from the heat, put on the plate and let it cool.
- Crumble paneer and knead it.
- Then, add 3 tbsp of sugar to the pan and cook on low heat for 2-3 minutes.
- Cool a bit and add the vanilla essence.
- Spread the mixture over the mango mixture.
- Sprinkle chopped nuts on top and put to refrigerator for at least 3h. Then cut into pieces and serve.
