Mumbai famous aflatoon barfi
Aflatoon Barfi is one of the most popular sweet from Mumbai, India.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup semolina/suji 100 gm
- 1/2 cup milk powder 65 gm
- 1/2 cup desi ghee 100 ml
- 3/4 cup sugar 170 gm
- 1 cup milk warm
- 1 cup khoya 250 gm
- 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
- 2 tbsp almonds chopped
- 2 tbsp cashews chopped
- 1 tbsp pistachios chopped
- Silver varq for garnish
Instructions
- Take a pan and add 2 tbsp of desi ghee out of 1/2 cup of ghee in it.
- Add chopped almonds and cashews.
- Roast on low heat until nuts turn light brown.
- Take the nuts out and keep aside.
- Add rest of the ghee in the same pan.
- Add semolina and start roasting it on low heat. Keep stirring.
- In about 12 to 15 minutes, semolina turns slightly brown.
- Add sugar and milk powder. Keep roasting with continuous stirring.
- Roast them too for 8-10 minutes or until mixture turns golden brown.
- Now add milk, khoya and roasted nuts.
- Mix everything well and Keep cooking while stirring continuously.
- After some time, mixture will be thicken, become like a mass and start leaving the sides of the pan.
- Switch of the heat, add cardamom powder and mix well.
- Immediately transfer the mixture in a ghee greased tray or plate. Spread the mixture evenly with the thickness of barfi.
- Sprinkle chopped almonds, cashews and pistachios all over the mixture. Tuck them with spatula do that nuts fixes well.
- Also decorate it with siver verk.
- Leave the mixture to cool completely for about 1 hour or until it is properly set.
- Once cool, cut into desired shapes.
- Enjoy.
Notes
- Instead of setting it as a Barfi, you can serve it hot immediately after cooking, as a halwa.
- Use only heavy bottomed pan to cook this recipe as during roasting, ingredients may burn quickly.
- You can use any nuts of your choice.
- To give more deep brown colour to your Barfi, you can add 2 tbsp of caramelized sugar also.
- Instead of 1 cup of khoya, you can add 1/2 cup khoya also, but in that case bring the sugar down to 1/2 cup.