Besan Burfee Burfi (Chickpea flour Fudge) Recipe

Simple fudge made with Native Chickpea flour (Besan) sugar ghee and flavored with cardamoms

I spent my childhood in a small village of Rajasthan, with NO refrigerators. So, many items were made to last for a long time at room temperature. This is one of those items and favorite of mine.

Ingredients

1. Besan (Chickpea flour): 1 Cup
2. Ghee (Clarified butter): 1 Cup
3. Dry Coconut Slivers: ¼ Cup

Thinly sliced Dried Coconut
4. Cardamom seeds: ½ teaspoon
5. Sugar: 1 Cup

Method

1. In a heavy bottom pan, mix Ghee and Besan.

2. Turn on heat to low. First the Besan with soak the Ghee in and then as the Besan starts to fry, the Besan will start getting lighter. Keep stirring till the Besan starts to change color to brown with nutty aroma. Do not let the Besan Burn to brown.

3. Stir in dry coconut, continue stir frying till coconut starts to get toasty. Turn off heat. Stir in remaining ingredients. Put it in a deep cookie pan while still hot. Press the ingredients with spatula. Let it cool.