Ingredients
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2 cups Sugar
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3 cups Water
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½ tsp Cardamom powder
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2 cups Pineapple Diced
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1cup Coconut chopped
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a dash Water
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1 cup Custard powder
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6 tbsp Desi Ghee
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Nuts chopped - handful
Directions
The festive season comes with celebration and is always incomplete without homemade sweets.
If you are thinking to gift something out of the box to friends and family, here is an easy recipe to make. Just with few ingredients you can prepare pineapple barfi at home.
Steps
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To prepare the barfi add sugar to a pan along with 3cups of water and cardamom powder. Bring it to a boil and cook till the sugar dissolves, we need thin watery syrup. Remove from heat. |
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Once mixed start heating the pan and keep stirring. Cook till the content thickens, make sure you cook it on low heat and gradually increase the heat to medium high. After cooking for about 3mins add 1 tbsp of ghee. Mix till it incorporates completely. Once done add another tbsp of ghee and repeat the process till all of the ghee is incorporated. |
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Once all the ghee is used cook the mixture to the point that when you take a spoonful of it and upturn it, it does not fall or falls very slowly. At this stage turn off the heat and empty it out in a greased tray or line a tray with butter paper and then pour it over it. At this stage you can also add nuts to it or simply garnish them later. Allow it to cool completely and then put it in a fridge for at least an hour. |
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4
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Post that remove the block of barfi by upturning the tray, remove the butter paper and cut it into squares or any desired shape. Garnish it with chopped nuts and serve. |
