Learn how to master PECAN BURFEE
Everyone makes ‘normal’ burfee these days and although it’s a delicacy, we’re all so used to conventional burfee at events. Try something different, and have your sweetmeats stand out from the rest.
Let’s up the standards a bit for Diwali, and try Pecan burfee.
It’s different, but a truly yummy kind of different.
INGREDIENTS:
500g klim
1 sml nestle cream…155g
1 cup fresh milk
125g butter
500g icing sugar or 3/4 of the 500g
2 cups fresh cream
1 tsp fresh elachi pwd
1 cup sugar
1 cup finely chopped pecan nuts
METHOD
Blend klim and Nestle in a food processor or use your fingers to mix
When it resembles bread crumbs, push mixture through a sift.
Sift icing sugar and add elachi powder and add klim mixture
Make a thick syrup with 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup of milk
Add fresh cream to the syrup and boil till thick
Add butter to syrup just before removing from stove
Add pecans and mix well
Lastly add the klim mixture and leave in a pot for a day or two till its nice and firm
Set in a tray or in pretty paper cups
Dust with edible gold dust and…
ENJOY!
