How to Make Chickpea Barfi with Glazed Carrots
Serves: 6-8
Preparation time: 1hour
Cooking time: 30 mins
Ingredients needed to make Chickpea Barfi with Glazed Carrots:
For the barfi:
- 2 cups fresh coconut, finely grated
- 1 cup chick pea flour
- 3 cups sugar
- ½ cup clarified butter or ghee, melted
- 1 cup whole milk
- ¼ tsp ground cardamom
- Handful of cashew nuts, roasted
For the glazed carrots:
- 2 carrots
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 tsp honey
- Pinch of salt to taste
Cooking instructions for Chickpea Barfi with Glazed Carrots:
- Empty the cups of coconut and chick pea flour into a deep bottomed vessel and toss well to mix.
- Pour in the milk as well as sugar and combine into a smooth mixture.
- Place the vessel on heat and cook over slow flame, while stirring constantly, until the sugar melts and the mixture dilutes slightly.
- Continue to cook the mixture for another 10-15 minutes or until it gathers up together and leaves the sides of the vessel.
- Drizzle most of the ghee over it and sprinkle the ground cardamom on top.
- Stir them all together and cook the mixture for another 5 minutes.
- Grease a flat plate with rest of the ghee and set aside.
- Once bubbles begins to appear in the mixture, transfer it to the pre-greased plate.
- Spread it swiftly across the plate with a spatula and level the surface with the same.
- Set aside until it sets and start preparing the glazed carrots in the mean time.
- To make the honey glazed carrot, rinse the carrots and peel off its skin before grating them finely.
- Heat oil in a separate pan and add the grated carrots.
- Stir-fry them for about 5 minutes or until it softens and turns golden.
- Drizzle the honey over them and continue to cook the carrots for another 5 minutes, while stirring often.
- Season with a pinch of salt and stir well to mix.
- Remove from heat and set aside.
- Once the mixture sets, slice it diagonally into diamond shapes or ‘barfis’ and keep it aside again until they cool to room temperature.
- Lift the barfis carefully, one by one, onto a serving plate and spoon a tsp of honey glazed carrots on top.
- Place a roasted cashew nut on top of each barfi and serve at room temperature.
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