Paneer Burfi
May 24th, 2008 filed under Desserts
Paneer Burfi is great to serve with tea or coffee, or as a dessert with any meal.
Makes about 25 pieces.
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:
- Check the recipe for paneer and make the paneer with whole milk or 4% milk.
- Pre heat the oven on 275 degrees.
- Grease the 8″ by 8″ baking pan keep aside.
- Remove the crust from all side of bread.
- 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.
- Mixture should be moist, if it appears to be dry add 2-3 spoons of milk.
- Put the mix in baking dish spread evenly and spread rest of the almonds evenly. Cover with the foil.
- 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.
- After paneer burfee comes to the room temperature cut them into your desired size and shapes.
Variations:
- Add 2 tablespoons of coconut powder in the mixture while mix is still in food processor.
- You can flavor the burfee with saffron adding about 6 strand of saffron in the mixture.
- Saffron will give nice color and add to the taste.
Thanks for the receipe.I made it for a party and everybody loved it.thans again for the yummi receipe.
Thanks a lot Auntyji.
use about 1/2 pound ready made Paneer.
Hello Anuty,
I wanted to ask can i use the ready made paneer for this?
if yes then how much quantity of paneer needs to be used to make 25 pieces?
Hi Bhavika, make bread crumb breaking the bread in small pieces and mixing togather every thing by hand, blender dont work to mix.
Hello Aunty,
I want to make this.Looks yummy and tasty.
But I dont have food processor .Can i use blender to do it?
it was very goood…n tasty!
you can use the ricotta cheese but it will not be same.
Manjulaji, Can we do this burfi with ricotta cheese instead ?
hello!.I saw your awesome recipe.But i do not have microve or oven or any other electrical appliances in my house.Can you please tell me how to do the same in stove or in cooker?
Thankyou!