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.
Can you let me know whether this recipe can be made with Philadelphia Cream Cheese (Bcoz Paneer is also a kind of Cheese).
Jaya Lakshmi
Sorry, it will not work.
I love ur all recipes.. u r the best. Ur recipes makes it very easy. I feel like my mom or anty is teaching. I made few recipes of you. so far only one didn,t go well.. tht was Nan-Katai, well goes untill i put them to bake. lol.
well, now if i make something new my husband ask me is this ur anty,s recipe.
I made this today – FANTASTIC and DELICIOUS! I am curious you don’t mention if it should be refrigerated since this is cheese? I did put mine in the refrigerator. What do you do? Love your videos Manjula – your recipes are always easy – I have made a few now.
Oh and I forgot to mention I used “pine nuts” because I didn’t have the almonds – very tasty – but then I married into an Italian family!
I also wondered if you pulled out the papery parts from the cardamom pods? I didn’t see you do it on the video but I did do it before adding to the mixture in the food processor. Interestingly I had to bake mine for 45 minutes! I think it is hard to get my oven to 275F. Still came out wonderful and I think I will enjoy the whole pan myself since hubby is away this week! Should I freeze some for him? Will it freeze well?
Hi Manjula aunti can you please tell me how much paneer it be if measured in cups thank you
Hi Manjula,
I tried this recipe for get together, it was liked by all. It came out wonderful and tasty. The big plus point is …its very very easy to make!!
Thanks for sharing.
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
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 ?