Mango Barfi

I thought I was done with making mango desserts for the year.. but who was I kidding?

My mum got malai barfi yesterday which got me all exciting to try it out with a mango twist.

I love barfi since I was a kid. The way it melts in your mouth and leaves a great after taste is sooo good. I had to learn how to make barfi and what better way than to include my favourite fruit with my favourite sweet.

The decision was made overnight so I had to make do with the ingredients I had at home. Luckily I had most ingredients.

The only stressful thing about the recipe is that it's tooo lengthy. You'll need a lot of patience because it requires a lot of continuous stirring.

One way to skip the lengthy procedure is adding desiccated coconut or condensed milk instead of milk. I didn't want coconut to dominate the flavour of the barfi or make the barfi too sweet, so I decided to use milk. Using only milk gives the barfi a plain mango taste and full cream milk helps enrich the sweet.

Here are a few things to keep in mind :

1. Using full fat milk is completely optional but recommended for richness.

2. While adding sugar to the recipe, first add only 1/2 cup sugar. Add more or less depending on the sweetness of mango.

3. The barfi mixture will bubble a lot while cooking so be very very careful while stirring and don't burn yourself.

4. If your mangoes are not ripe enough, you can add yellow colour to your mixture and get the desired colour.

5. It's okay of your milk curdles, mine did too. It will not affect the taste of the barfi.

6. During the last stage of thickening the mixture, make sure you thicken it so as to it starts leaving the pan. The thicker the mixture, the better it will set.

7. Do not chill your barfi in the deep freezer. It will start leaving water when left in room temperature making it loose shape.

8. Incase your barfi doesn't hold its shape even after setting, do not worry. Store it in a box and call it a fudge ;) It's still going to taste the same, just the shape will be different!

Let's get started !

1. For this recipe, you will need:

2. In a pan, heat milk till one boil.

3. Add mango puree and using a whisk, mix well.

4. Cook until it reduces to half.

5. Now add sugar and cardamom powder, mix well.

6. Add milk powder, mix and let it reduce until this consistency.

The mixture should leave the sides of the pan and become lumpy.

7.Transfer to a mould

8. Chill for 7-8 hours.

9. Remove, cut into pieces and serve.

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MANGO BARFI

Cooking time : 1 hour

Chilling time : 6 hour

Yields : 25 square pieces

Ingredients :

Milk - 1 lt

Mango pulp of 2 large mangoes

Sugar - 3/4 cup

Cardamom powder - 1.5 tsp

Milk powder - 1/2 cup

Method :

1. In a pan, heat milk till one boil.

2. Add mango puree and using a whisk, mix well.

3. Stir till it reduces to half.

4. Now add sugar and cardamom powder, mix well.

5. Add milk powder and let it reduce until it starts leaving the pan and becomes lumpy.

6. Transfer to a mould.

7. Chill for 7-8 hours.

8. Remove and cut into pieces.

9. Garnish with almonds.

10. Serve!

Isn't it quick and easy to make ?

Make it right now, send me pictures and tell me if you liked them!