7 Cups Sweet | 7 Cup Burfi Recipe
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7 Cups Sweet | 7 Cup Burfi Recipe
Description
7 Cup Burfi is made by roasting gram flour gently to release nutty aromas without browning it. The recipe uses equal parts of besan, fresh coconut, ghee, milk, and sugar, combined and cooked slowly to thicken into a sweet fudge-like confection. Cardamom powder adds a fragrant spice tone. The process involves frequent stirring to ensure even cooking and prevent burning, scraping the pan bottom and sides consistently. The final mixture is poured into a greased tray to set. This burfi balances richness from ghee and coconut with the sweetness and spice of sugar and cardamom.
The resulting texture should be firm enough to cut into squares, showcasing a dense, smooth mouthfeel characteristic of traditional Indian sweets. The recipe highlights the importance of using fresh besan and careful heat control. Desiccated coconut can be substituted to shorten cooking time, and sugar quantity may be adjusted to taste. Proper cooling and storage, especially refrigeration in warm climates, maintain its freshness.
7 Cup Burfi is often prepared for festivals or special occasions and can be doubled if needed but requires more active stirring. Using high-quality ghee contributes to the depth of flavor. Attention to not burning the mixture is critical to preserve the sweet's proper taste and texture.
Ingredients
- ½ cup besan (gram flour) or 50 grams
- ½ cup coconut or 35 grams fresh coconut, fresh
- ½ cup ghee or 100 to 110 grams ghee (clarified butter)
- ½ cup milk
- 1.25 cups sugar or 200 to 210 grams sugar
- ½ teaspoon cardamom powder
Instructions
Preparation
- Take all the ingredients and keep them ready – besan, grated coconut, milk, ghee and sugar. Instead of 1.25 cup sugar, you can use 1 cup sugar.
- Grease a tray or a pan with some ghee.
Roasting gram flour
- Heat a heavy iron kadai or pan. Keep the heat to a low and add besan or gram flour.
- Stir often and roast the besan for 3 to 4 minutes or till you get a nice nutty aroma from it.
- Do not brown the besan. Also stir continuously while roasting besan.
Making 7 cup burfi
- Once the besan becomes aromatic, then add fresh coconut, ghee and milk.
- Mix very well.
- Then add sugar and cardamom powder.
- Mix again very well and stir so that the sugar dissolves. The mixture will also become liquid like.
- Keep on stirring and cooking on a low heat.
- The mixture will begin to thicken and reduce.
- Continue to cook and stir till the mixture leaves the sides of the pan. While stirring also scrape the bottom of the kadai and the sides. If you do not scrape, then the mixture starts sticking and gets browned or burnt. So you have to non stop stir and scrape. do use flat steel spatula (palta) as this helps in scraping the besan mixture.
- Even after leaving the sides of the pan, Continue to cook till you see ghee releasing from the sides. When the burfi mixture looks like one molten mass with some bubbles and ghee releasing from the sides, then switch off the flame.
- If you cook too much, then the burfi will become hard and crumbly.
Setting the 7 cups sweet
- Immediately pour the entire burfi mixture in the greased tray or pan.
- With a spatula or spoon, even and smoothen the top.
- Let the burfi become warm or cool down at room temperature.
- Then cut with a sharp knife and serve 7 cup burfi or store in an air-tight box. You can keep the barfi at room temperature in a cold season for 1 day or you can refrigerate.
- Offer the 7 cup burfi to the deities or serve as a sweet.
Notes
- The recipe can be doubled, but increased quantities will require more stirring and care to avoid burning.
- Desiccated coconut can replace fresh coconut, which reduces cooking time.
- Adjust sugar to 1 cup if a less sweet version is preferred.
- Use fresh, non-rancid besan for best flavor and texture.
- Traditional desi ghee enhances the flavor notably in this sweet.
- Constant stirring and scraping are essential to prevent browning or burning during cooking.
- Store in the refrigerator in warm or hot climates to maintain freshness.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 4Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 512 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 512kcal | 26% |
| Carbohydrates | 59g | 20% |
| Protein | 3g | 6% |
| Fat | 30g | 46% |
| Saturated Fat | 19g | 95% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 1g | 6% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 7g | 35% |
| Cholesterol | 69mg | 23% |
| Sodium | 22mg | 1% |
| Potassium | 170mg | 4% |
| Fiber | 2g | 8% |
| Sugar | 53g | 106% |
| Vitamin A | 855IU | 17% |
| Vitamin C | 0.2mg | 0% |
| Calcium | 39mg | 4% |
| Iron | 0.8mg | 4% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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