Seven Cup Burfi Recipe (Easy 7 Cup Cake / Burfi)
Easy, melt-in-mouth Seven Cup Burfi (7 cup cake) made with 5 simple ingredients — besan, coconut, milk, sugar and ghee. No sugar syrup string consistency required!
Servings: 10
Ingredients
1 cup = 250 ml (scaled down ratio)
- ¼ cup Besan flour / Gram flour (approx. 30 g / 1 oz)
- ¼ cup Boiled milk (approx. 60 ml / 2 fl oz, at room temperature)
- ¼ cup Finely grated coconut OR desiccated coconut (approx. 20 g / 0.7 oz)
- ¼ cup Melted ghee (approx. 50 g / 1.8 oz, at room temperature)
- ¾ cup Sugar (approx. 150 g / 5.3 oz)
- ½ tsp Cardamom powder
Instructions
- Measure and keep all the ingredients ready. Take a plate and grease with ghee. Also grease a small bowl or flat-bottomed ladle to level the burfi.
- Heat a kadai and take 1/4 cup of besan flour. Dry roast it for 5 minutes on medium flame until raw smell vanishes. Do not brown the flour or burn it.
- Lower the flame completely (or switch it off if you are a beginner). Add grated coconut, melted ghee, boiled milk at room temperature, sugar and cardamom powder. Mix without lumps. Now switch on the flame and keep it on medium. Stir the mixture well. Small lumps will break down naturally while cooking.
- Stay nearby and keep mixing. Initially bubbles appear in the middle. As you mix, the burfi mixture thickens and bubbles appear all over the kadai.
- Keep mixing until frothy, thick and starts to leave the sides of pan. At one stage, the burfi mixture becomes thick and starts following the ladle. Immediately switch off the flame and transfer to the ghee-greased tray. Do not overcook because the burfi will crumble or become hard.
- Quickly level and spread it using the greased bowl or ladle. Mark pieces while warm. Remove after it cools down completely. Store in an airtight container and enjoy for a week.
Notes
- Do not overcook the mixture or the burfi will crumble. If it crumbles, grind it with a few drops of warm milk into a paste and cook again briefly until the mixture comes together.
- If you do not want to use 3 parts of sugar, you can use 2 parts sugar and 1 part powdered cashews or almonds. Authentic 7 cup recipe does not use nuts.
- Dried or desiccated coconut gives a better texture than fresh coconut. If using fresh coconut, grate it finely or pulse once in a mixie.