Paneer Burfi

May 24th, 2008 filed under Desserts
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Paneer Burfi is great to serve with tea or coffee, or as a dessert with any meal.

Makes about 25 pieces.

Paneer Burfi

Ingredients:

  • Paneer with 1/2 gallon or 8 cups of milk
  • 2 slices of white bread
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 6 green cardamoms coarsely grounded
  • 1/4 cup sliced almonds
  • 1/2 teaspoon of butter to grease the baking pan

Method:

  1. Check the recipe for paneer and make the paneer with whole milk or 4% milk.
  2. Pre heat the oven on 275 degrees.
  3. Grease the 8″ by 8″ baking pan keep aside.
  4. Remove the crust from all side of bread.
  5. In food processor put the bread and make breadcrumb add paneer and sugar mix it well now add cardamom and half the sliced almonds and mix just for few seconds.
  6. Mixture should be moist, if it appears to be dry add 2-3 spoons of milk.
  7. Put the mix in baking dish spread evenly and spread rest of the almonds evenly. Cover with the foil.
  8. Burfee should take about 30 minutes but check after about 20 minutes like you will check the cake putting the knife. Knife should come out clean. After burfee is ready leave it cover for about fifteen minutes so burfee remain moist with the steam.
  9. After paneer burfee comes to the room temperature cut them into your desired size and shapes.

Variations:

  1. Add 2 tablespoons of coconut powder in the mixture while mix is still in food processor.
  2. You can flavor the burfee with saffron adding about 6 strand of saffron in the mixture.
  3. Saffron will give nice color and add to the taste.

47 Responses to “Paneer Burfi”

  1. Meenu says:

    Hello!

    I learnt about this recipe from a friend. I appreciate this recipe and want to try it as I do not cook Indian sweets, but this one sounds simple enough to try.

    I have the same question as Shambhavi. Can I make this without bread? This way I can eat it while fasting as well.

    Thank you
    Meenu

  2. Shambhavi says:

    Hello! Manjula ji,
    Your recipes are great and very easy to make. Also they are without onion and garlic which why I am so delighted because we do not eat onion and garlic.
    Can we omit the bread in thr recipe of Paneer Burfi? What is the role of the bread in this recipe ?

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