CookingBook.in
Guilt Free Coconut Barfi Recipe

Guilt Free Coconut Barfi Recipe

By Admin
Prep Time Total in 40 M
Course Dessert
Cuisine North Indian Recipes
Diet Vegetarian

This Guilt-Free Coconut Barfi is a quick and easy recipe which combines dates and desiccated coconut into a sweet barfi. Being an Indian, I always keep some barfi, pedhas or rasgulla in my kitchen to enjoy sweets after spicy Indian food. But being a cautious mother and a wife, I keep a tab on how much sugar my family consumes every day and try to substitute sugar with alternatives. I try to make use of dates in most of my desserts, because of its beneficial properties. This coconut dates barfi is quite easy to prepare and tastes yum. You just have to make almonds powder and mix it with homemade sautéed dates paste. Add some dry desiccated coconut and done. Press it on a plate, give desired cuts and enjoy. Prepare this barfi and enjoy whenever you crave for sweets. If you love hot and spicy Indian food, then you won’t regret munching this delicious sweet Indian dessert right after.

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup Whole Almonds (Badam)
  • powdered
  • 15 Dates
  • seedless
  • 3/4 cup Dessicated Coconut
  • + little extra for garnishing
  • 3 tablespoons Milk
  • 1 tablespoon Ghee
  • /clarified butter + a little extra for greasing the plate
  • 1 teaspoon Cardamom Powder (Elaichi)

Instructions

Step 1

To prepare Guilt Free Coconut Barfi, get ready with all the ingredients and grease your plate or pan where you will be removing your barfi dough to cut into shapes

Step 2

Make almond powder

Step 3

I prepared the powder at home in a mixer grinder, you can also use store bought one

Step 4

Using 3 tablespoons milk, make a thick puree of Dates by wet grinding it in the mixer

Step 5

Heat a tablespoon ghee in a saucepan kept on medium high and once the ghee melts, add dates puree

Step 6

Sauté it for about 5 minutes

Step 7

Add almonds powder and mix well

Step 8

It should form a nice and dry dough

Step 9

Add Coconut and mix well for about 2 minutes and switch off the flame

Step 10

Add cardamom powder and mix

Step 11

Pour this barfi mixture on the greased plate or pan that you had prepared

Step 12

Press and spread the recipe well with a spoon

Step 13

Sprinkle some dry desiccated coconut on top for garnishing and press with your palm

Step 14

Give the cuts using knife

Step 15

You can give square or diamond shaped cuts

Step 16

Let them cool completely and only then, remove the pieces of guilt free coconut barfi out and serve along a nice Indian menu to make your weekday meal memorable

Share this recipe