Dates & Dry Fruits Burfi

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This dates and dry fruits barfi is not only delicious to eat but healthy too! It has the richness and proteins from the dry fruits and dates and very less sugar making it a very good option for everyone - kids as well as adults!


Preparation time - 20-25 minutes
Setting time - 30 minutes
Total time taken - 50-55 minutes

Ingredients:

Seedless Dates 2 cups
Almonds 1/4 cup
Cashewnuts 1/4 cup
Raisins 1/4 cup
Pistachios 1/4 cup
Poppy seeds 2 tbsp
Ghee 2 tsp

Method:

1. Roughly chop almonds, cashew and pistachios.

2. Dry roast them in a pan, one after the other for about 2-3 minutes each. Remove from pan and allow them to cool.

3. Roast poppy seeds in the same pan for a minute, and add them to the nuts.

4. Once cool, pulse the nuts and poppy seeds to a coarse mixture. You can choose how coarse you want the nuts to be.

5. In the same pan, heat ghee and add the chopped dates and raisins.

6. On medium heat cook them together till they form a thick mass. Do not leave the mixture unattended else it might burn.

7. After about 5-7 minutes when the mixture comes together, remove from heat and cool. Whip this in a food processor or blender to a coarse paste.

8. Transfer the dates raisins mixture to the pan and add the crushed nuts.

9. On medium flame homogenize the mixture till it all comes together to form a thick mass. This should take about 10 minutes. Shut off the gas and let the mixture cool till it can be handled with bare hands.

10. The shape of the final product completely depends on you. If you want cubes, pour the mixture in a greased tray and once little cool, cut them to squares. If you want balls, take 1 tbsp. of the mixture, shape it like a ball with greased hands and coat it in poppy seeds.

11. I rolled the mixture like a log in foil paper tightly. Kept in in the fridge for 1/2 an hour and later cut it in the slices.

Tasty and sugar-less sweets are ready!

Note:

I powered all the nuts very finely as I prepared them for my dad who has problem in chewing nuts.



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