Diwali 2024: If you too are tired of eating the same type of sweets on every festival, then today we have brought a special recipe for you. This Diwali you can make peanut barfi for your guests. The most important thing is that there is neither much hassle in making it nor do you need to buy expensive dry fruits or mangoes from the market. Let us tell you the easiest recipe to make it.
Ingredients for making peanut barfi
- 2 cups peanuts (roasted)
- 1 cup jaggery
- 2-3 spoons ghee
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/4 tsp cardamom powder
- Chopped almonds and cashews (for decoration)
How to make peanut barfi
- – First of all, grind the roasted peanuts finely in the mixer. Keep in mind that peanut powder should not be too fine, the particles should be less.
- – Add jaggery and milk in a non-stick pan and heat it on medium flame. Keep stirring it continuously until the jaggery dissolves completely.
- Then when the jaggery melts completely, add peanut powder and ghee to it and mix well.
- Cook the mixture, stirring continuously, until it thickens and starts separating from the sides of the pan.
- – Now turn off the gas and add cardamom powder to the mixture and mix well.
- – Put desi ghee in a plate or tray. – Now spread this mixture in a plate and smooth it with a spoon. Garnish with chopped almonds and cashews.
- – Now let the barfi cool completely and then cut the barfi into desired shapes and serve.
special suggestions
- You can increase or decrease the quantity of jaggery as per your taste.
- Along with peanuts, you can also add other dry fruits like cashews, almonds, pistachios etc.
- You can also add other flavors as per your choice like cardamom, saffron etc.
- You can decorate barfi in different ways like silver work, food color etc.