Gond Khoya Barfi Jammu Special
A rich festive sweet from Jammu, Gond Khoya Barfi Jammu Special blends roasted gond, creamy khoya, and aromatic ghee into pure indulgence.
Ingredients
1 cup = 250 ml
- 500 gram khoya/mava
- 150 gram/3/4 cup sugar
- Crushed seeds of 4 cardamoms
- 1 tbsp desi ghee
- 2 tbsp gond
Instructions
- Take a thick bottomed pan and add desi ghee.
- When ghee is lightly hot, add gond.
- Fry till it puffs up and becomes whitish. It will take just a minute or so.
- Take the fried gond out of the pan.
- Now add khoya in the same pan. If khoya is hard, you need not to grate it.
- Also add sugar.
- Now start cooking at the low temperature.
- Break the big chunks of khoya.
- Keep cooking. Initially khoya will melt. Add cardamom powder. Keep stirring.
- After about 20 minutes of cooking, khoya will begin to leave the sides of the pan.
- TEST : Here we did a small test. Take a droplet of khoya in a plate. Let it cool down completely for a minute. Then roll it in your fingers, if it takes a proper shape and roll without sticking to your hand, its a sign that khoya is properly cooked. But if it doesn't, its a sign that you need to cook it bit more. The roll we made was sticking to our hand.
- Not at 20, but our test succeeded after 30 minutes of cooking. Roll came out so perfect and rolling in a hand without sticking.
- Immediately transfer the khoya in a greased thali.
- Level it properly.
- While the khoya is hot, sprinkle the gond all the surface of khoya, like we generally do with nuts.
- Let it cool down completely.
- Cut into barfi shape and enjoy.