Milk Burfi
A beautiful sweet that's also wonderfully easy to make! Burfi is a heavenly treat from Indian cuisine that tastes a lot like fudge. In India it's treasured almost like a jewel — rich, tender, and unforgettable once you've tried it.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
Gather all the ingredients and measure out the amounts you'll need. I used 82% butterfat butter.
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Step 2:
Melt the butter in a metal bowl, saucepan, or skillet.
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Step 3:
Add the sugar to the butter.
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Step 4:
Stir and cook over moderate heat until the mixture bubbles, then add the sour cream.
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Step 5:
Stir well until smooth and lump-free.
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Step 6:
Keep the mixture on the heat until foam appears, then turn the heat off right away.
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Step 7:
Pour the hot mixture into a bowl (you can skip this if your saucepan is large enough).
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Step 8:
While it's still hot, add the vanilla sugar and beat with a mixer.
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Step 9:
Gradually add the powdered milk.
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Step 10:
The mixture should turn thick and stretchy. If it's too runny, add a little more powdered milk — but just a little!
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Step 11:
Pour the mixture into a mold and scatter cashews over the top.
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Step 12:
Press the nuts lightly into the surface and refrigerate for about an hour to set.
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Step 13:
Cut the burfi into pieces and serve. Enjoy!
- I first learned how to make milk burfi from a cooking show, and decided to try it because it looked so appealing. The unusual method turned out to be far easier than I'd expected — the key is just to follow the steps. Milk burfi is a popular lacto-vegetarian dessert in India that locals and tourists adore. Indian cooking is known for generous use of spices, but many of its desserts — burfi among them — are lusciously sweet. It's built on a dairy base (milk, cream, or sour cream), which is the essential, unchanging ingredient; the rest can vary, so there are countless versions of these candies. Indian families pass the classic burfi recipe down through the generations.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Whole cow's milk - 68 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.5% fat content - 64 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.2% fat content - 60 kcal/100g
- Milk 1.5% fat content - 47 kcal/100g
- Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140 kcal/100g
- Milk 2.5% fat content - 54 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 30% fat content - 340 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 25 % fat content - 284 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 20 % fat content - 210 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 10 % fat content - 115 kcal/100g
- Sour cream - 210 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Amateur unsalted butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted peasant butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Peasant salted butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Melted butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Cashews - 561 kcal/100g
- Vanilla sugar - 379 kcal/100g
