Recipes – Chocolate Burfi

Chocolate Burfi

Have you thought about how you could make those special burfis, or simply known as candies in most of the Indian sweet shops?

Its really simple – not rocket science at all.. I will show you just so plainly and simply how you could do the same and then maybe you don’t have to worry about waiting the whole week to buy burfis!

Ingredients

2 litres of fresh milk

1 slab of milk chocolate melted over hot water.

1 small slab of chocolate chopped

125gms sugar

100gms mixed sliced nuts, i.e almonds, pistachio, cashewnuts, walnuts

2 tbl spoon raisins

A few drops of vanilla essence

Silver warq

Instructions

1. Heat milk and sugar together and keep on stirring until mixture becomes thick.

2. Mix in the rest of the above ingredients with the exception of warq.

3. Pour the contents onto a lightly greased long plate.

4. Level the surface gently and decorate with warq.

5. Leave to cool in refrigerator.

6. Once cool, cut into pieces and serve.

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Masala Idly

Idly is a south-Indian dish that is predominantly had for breakfast. This however is not necessarily true, as it is also eaten for dinner and even tea time.

It’s a great meal, and suprisingly these small fluffy buns makes the tummy full with just a few pieces. Today, I will show you how to make Masala Idli, and I bet you will love it!

Ingredients:

250gms raw rice

25gms Urad Dhall (Whole White Dhall)

1/2 coconut scrapped

1 small onion

2 green chillies

A few coriander leaves chopped

Some tamarind

Salt and chilli powder to taste

Instructions

1. Wash and soak the rice and whole white dhall in water for about 6 hours.

2. Drain out the water and grind the dhall and rice together until they become a smooth paste.

3. Add the coconut and tamarind and grind once again until they become smooth.

4. Mix in the rest of the above ingredients and then add enough water to form a thick batter.

5. Lightly grease the cups of the ‘Idli Stand’.

6. Put 1 large cup of water in the pressure cooker.

7. Fill the cups of the Idli stand with batter and place the stand in the cooker.

8. Close the lid, do not use the regulator for making the idlis.

9. Let the fire be slow within 6-8 minutes, and the idlis would be ready.

10. Serve hot with either chuntey or sambar.