Barfi

Dassana Amit describes Barfi as a family of soft fudge-like sweets and presents coconut Barfi as her favorite version. Her selection balances sweetened condensed milk with unsweetened desiccated coconut and is a family treat for Raksha Bandhan.

Fine desiccated coconut is soaked in warm whole milk. The same milk-soaked coconut is then added to ghee and briefly sautéed before sweetened condensed milk is mixed through.

The selected optional sugar and green cardamom powdered from pods join the mixture. It is stirred as it thickens, loses moisture and begins gathering together with small drops of the same ghee appearing at the sides.

The selected optional rose water is stirred in before the mixture spreads into a separately ghee-coated tray. This selection uses the offered chopped cashew topping.

The fudge cools completely at room temperature before being sliced into squares or diamonds and served. The source describes a soft, creamy, melt-in-the-mouth sweet with the contrasting shredded texture of coconut.