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Barfi [a] or burfi is a milk-based sweet from the Indian subcontinent with a fudge-like consistency. Its name comes from the Persian and Urdu word (barf) for snow. Barfi is consumed throughout India and Pakistan and is especially popular in North India. It is often served at celebrations and religious festivals such as Diwali and Holi. [1] [2] [3]
Coconut Barfi Made from coconut, fine ground sugar, ghee, cardamom powder and milk. Coconut and milk based Jaynagarer Moa: gur, cow ghee, Kanakchur khoi: Fried and Rice-based Kheer sagar: Chenna, condensed milk, sugar, saffron, cardamom. Milk-based Kolar Bora banana, coconut, maida, sugar, oil: Fried and Banana-based Labanga latika
Bareilly Ki Barfi (transl. Bareilly's Barfi) is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy-drama directed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari. It is based on Nicolas Barreau's novel, The Ingredients of Love . The film stars Ayushmann Khurrana , Kriti Sanon and Rajkummar Rao in lead roles, with Pankaj Tripathi and Seema Pahwa in supporting roles.
It is usually garnished with sliced or chopped almonds or pistachios. It is sometimes called "Indian cheesecake", though it contains no cheese. Variations of the dish include apricot, mango and coconut flavorings. The presence of Besan provides very smooth texture, thus makes Khoya an optional ingredient.
Barfi (or burfi) is also flavoured, but khoa is not the only ingredient. Typically, another ingredient, such as thickened fruit pulp or coconut shavings, is added to khoa and slow-cooked until the moisture evaporates sufficiently to give the consistency of fudge, so it can be flattened and cut into rectangles, parallelograms or diamond shapes.
Copra has traditionally been grated and ground, then boiled in water to extract coconut oil. It was used by Pacific island cultures and became a valuable commercial product for merchants in the South Seas and South Asia in the 1860s. Nowadays, coconut oil (70%) is extracted by crushing copra; the by-product is known as copra cake or copra meal ...
Some sweets such as kheer and barfi are cooked, varieties like Mysore pak are roasted, some like jalebi are fried, others like kulfi are frozen, while still others involve a creative combination of preparation techniques. [9] [10] [11] The composition and recipes of the sweets and other ingredients vary by region.
Soan papdi has no confirmed origin, but one hypothesis is that it originated in the western state of Maharashtra, India. [3] According to culinary anthropologist Kurush F Dalal, Soan papdi is a Persian dish, the word "soan" has a Persian origin and the name comes from the term sohan pashmaki. [4]