White Burfi Recipe

Time and servings

Prep time	5 min
Cook time	15 min
Total time	20 min
Serves	8 servings

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About

It is an easy and simple fudge recipe made with plain flour, sugar syrup, and a range of dry fruits for toppings. In other words, white burfi or maida burfi is known for its white color, texture, and more importantly taste of the sweet. It hardly takes a few basic ingredients and the recipe can be prepared end to end in less than 20 minutes. It is a most common sweet recipe prepared for various occasions, particularly for Raksha Bandhan, Ganesh Chaturthi, and Krishna Janmashtami. There are many types of maida barfi recipe which mainly differs in the texture and colour of the sweet. Generally, it is prepared with white in color and hence it is known as white burfi. However, it can take any added color and thus makes it one of the most attractive, simple, and colorful barfi sweets. The other variation is to make a sandwich barfi with white on top and chocolate color at the bottom. This variant is super popular with kids for its multi-color layers with kids.

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Ingredients

• ½ cup ghee / clarified butter
• 1 cup maida / plain flour / refined flour / all purpose flour
• 2 cup sugar
• 1 cup water
• ¼ tsp cardamom powder / elachi powder
• 2 drop orange food colour (red + yellow)
• 2 drop green food colour

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Instructions

1. firstly, in a wide pan heat ½ cup ghee.
2. once the ghee is hot add in 1 cup maida.
3. keeping the flame on low.
4. roast maida till it turns aromatic. approx. 2 minutes. keep aside.
5. in another kadai take 2 cup sugar and 1 cup water.
6. stir well and dissolve sugar.
7. also get the sugar syrup to boil keeping the flame on medium.
8. boil the sugar syrup till one string consistency has reached.
9. now keeping the flame on low add in roasted maida.
10. stir continuously, till the maida gets combined well without any lumps.
11. add in ¼ tsp cardamom powder and mix well.
12. cook the maida mixture till it forms a flowing consistency batter.
13. divide the maida mixture into 3 equal parts for making 3 layers.
14. also mix 2 drop orange food colour (red + yellow) and 2 drop of green food colour in each.
15. spread the orange layer and flatten with a cup.
16. further spread plain maida layer followed by green layer and flatten with a cup.
17. allow to rest for 1 minutes or till it sets completely.
18. now reverse and cut into square pieces.
19. finally, serve tiranga burfi - maida burfi or store in a airtight container and enjoy for a week.

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Notes

• Firstly, roast the maida in hot ghee on low flame till they are aromatic. do not over-roast as they might taste bitter.
• Also, add a few chopped nuts to make instant maida burfi more healthy.
• Additionally, adding color to the burfi is optional, however, to make I have added a few drops of food color.
• Finally, maida burfi is prepared with a 1-string sugar consistency.