Beetroot burfi recipe / Beetroot coconut burfi is a delicious sweet even a beginner’s can try for this diwali 2016. I really love the colour of the burfi, it looks gorgeous, right ? This beetroot burfi is very famous in my hometown. I wanted to try this sweet for long time, finally made it for my blog post.  Try this for diwali, you will love it. Also check coconut burfi recipe in my blog.

Beetroot Burfi Recipe

Beetroot Burfi Recipe / Beetroot Coconut Burfi

 

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Prep time

10 mins

Cook time

35 mins

Total time

45 mins

 

Beetroot Burfi Recipe / Beetroot Coconut Burfi is a delicious sweet that you can make easily for diwali. It tasted similar to coconut burfi.

Author: Gayathri Ramanan

Recipe type: sweets

Cuisine: Indian

Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 1.5 Cups of Beetroot, Grated
• 1.5 Cups of Coconut, Grated
• ⅓ Cup of Milk
• 2.5 Cups of Sugar
• 4 Cardamom
• ½ Cup of Ghee
• 10-12 Cashews

Instructions

1. Wash and grate the beetroot. In a mixie, add coconut and grind it coarsely.
2. Heat a pan with 2 tbsp of ghee, saute the grated beetroot for 5 mins.
3. Add grated coconut, sugar and keep stirring.
4. Add milk, allow it to cook for 25 mins in medium high flame otherwise it will spill outside. Do not take your hands from laddle, keep on stirring until it gets reduced to half and turns thick.
5. Now add crushed cardamom, ghee and cashews, stir it continuously , till it leaves the sides of the pan. If the mixture turns little dry, act fast.
6. Transfer the mixture to the ghee coated plate. Level it and cut it into desired shapes when it is warm.
7. Cool it and store it in an airtight container.
8. Beetroot burfi is ready to serve.

Notes

Always use heavy bottomed pan while making sweets.
Saute the beetroot for few mins to get rid of raw smell.
Adjust the amount of sugar to your taste.
Don’t use dry dessicated coconut to make this burfi, it won’t taste good as fresh coconut burfi.
You can use any nuts of your choice to this burfi.
Always cook the whole process in medium flame.

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Traditional Sweet Pongal Recipe / Sakkarai Pongal Recipe / Chakkara Pongal / Innippu Pongal

Happy Pongal to all my viewers  😛 😛 😛

Pongal is a popular harvest festival celebrated for 4 days in second week of January in Tamilnadu. This pongal festival is considered to be a cultural one where one thank the sun god for bringing wealth and prosperity. Coming to the recipe, Sweet Pongal or sakkarai pongal is my favourite sweet dish. Every households makes sakkarai pongal recipe in a different ways. In some houses they add milk  while making sakkarai pongal, but in temple style traditional sweet pongal, it is made without milk.

To make sweet pongal recipe at home, you need raw rice, jaggery, moong dal, cardamom, cashews and ghee. This sweet pongal looks divine and it tastes awesome with the flavors of ghee and jaggery sweetness.

Try this best sweet pongal recipe / sakkarai pongal at home during pongal or any auspicious occasions. Enjoy with your family and friends. Happy pongal again !!!

• Ingredients for Best Sweet Pongal Recipe Prep Time :10  Cooking Time : 20 mins  Serves : 3 1/2 Cup of Raw Rice 1/2 Cup of Yellow Moong Dal 1 Cup of Jaggery Pinch of Dry Ginger Powder 3 Cardamom Seeds Pinch of Nutmeg Powder 10 Cashews 10 Raisins 1/4 Cup of Ghee 1 Tsp of Ghee 3 Cups of Water Method for Best Sweet Pongal Recipe Soak dal and rice seperately in water for 15 mins. Drain the water. Dry roast the dal until nice aroma comes. In a pressure cooker, add dal, rice and 1/2 tsp of ghee along with water. Cook it for 5 whistles. Open the lid and mash it well and keep is aside. Meanwhile, heat a pan with 1/4 cup of water, add jaggery and wait, until it gets completely dissolves. Strain it to remove the impurities. Now to the cooker, add jaggery syrup, mix well in a medium flame, add ghee, cardamom seeds and keep mixing until you get the pongal consistency. Heat a pan with ghee, roast the cashews and raisins until it turns golden brown colour. Now transfer this nuts to pongal, finally add a pinch of dry ginger powder, nutmeg powder and mix well. Serve hot with ghee drizzled. Tips You can use paagu vellam, the one we use it for adirasam or use normal jaggery. If your pongal gets dry, add more ghee and serve. If you are using old rice, you need more water. If you are using new rice, it needs less water. If you don’t have nutmeg powder and dry ginger powder, just omit it. Add generous amount of ghee for tasty pongal.

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