Coconut Barfi

          Whenever you visit lot of temples and you have fresh coconut as a result, the best way to consume it is making barfi. We even call it khobri mithai (khobri is coconut and mithai is sweet in kannada). This sweet is made only with three ingredients and the fourth is optional. So here is the recipe..

Ingredients:

Coconut (scraped) - 1 cup

Sugar - 1 cup

Milk - 4 tbsp

Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp (optional)
Ghee - for smearing the plate

Method:

Mix both coconut and sugar and leave this mix for half an hour. The sugar leaves water and the mix turns out little watery.

Take this mixture in a heavy bottom pan and heat it on a low flame. Add milk to it and mix well. Let it cook in its own time. Keep stirring occasionally. Once the sugar dissolves and starts forming syrup, turn the heat to medium flame and mix continuously. Once the coconut mixture leaves oil from sides, add cardamom powder and mix. 

Grease a plate with ghee and pour onto it. Flatten it and cut into pieces when it is semi hot. 

Enjoy this whenever you have sweet cravings. This remains fresh for a week, but I promise it will be emptied within minutes. :)

Note:

1. Use only freshly scraped coconut for this.

2. Dip your knife in cold water before cutting into pieces. The pieces come out neat and clean.

Enjoy Cooking :)