Thengai Burfi (Coconut Burfi)

Easy to make Sweet for Diwali!

Fresh grated coconut in cardamom flavored sugar syrup taste wonderful. If you are a sweet lover then you will love it for sure. Coconut Burfi as its name suggest is a sweet made of the coconut which can be cooked easily and quickly. Coconut Burfi (Thengai Burfi) is a tasty south Indian sweet done on most of the festival days. Most of us make this tasty burfi for Diwali. A little care needed otherwise a simple sweet yet so mouth-watering dish.

How to make Perfect coconut Burfi?

• White Coconut Gratings : To get perfectly white coconut burfi, we need coconut gratings that is without any shell particles in it. Wash and break the coconut and grate each half  till halfway. We don’t need the coconut shell particles to come in our gratings. I have tried with frozen coconut and also with dry coconut powder, both of them turned out into perfect Burfi’s. So if you don’t have access to fresh coconut, you can use dry coconut powder or frozen coconut.
• Sugar Syrup – One-String Consistency of Sugar Syrup helps to get perfect burfis. We can cook coconut and sugar together without one-string consistency, but that process of making burfi takes more time. One-String consistency quickens the process
• Adding milk to Sugar Syrup makes any dirt in the sugar to float on the top of the sugar syrup and we can just use a ladle to take out the dirt.
• If the Burfi is soft and not able to cut into pieces, it means we have to cook the burfi for some more time. Do not panic, just reheat the burfi mixture and keep cooking in low flame till all the moisture is absorbed and then pour the burfi in greased plate. Allow it to cool and then cut into pieces
• If the Burfi starts to crumble and not able to cut into pieces, it means we have overcooked the burfi. Do not panic, just reheat the burfi mixture along with 2 tablespoon of water. This makes the burfi mixture to dilute again. Keep cooking in low flame till all the moisture is absorbed and then pour the burfi in greased plate. Allow it to cool and then cut into pieces

Other Burfi varieties to try:

1. Badam Burfi

2. Maida Burfi

3. Chocolate Khoya Burfi

4. Carrot Coconut Burfi

5. Badam Cashew Burfi

Recipe in Video format

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Thengai Burfi | Coconut Burfi

Course: Sweet

Cuisine: South Indian, Tamil Nadu

Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes minutes

Servings: 20 Burfis

Calories: 182kcal

Author: Sowmya Venkatachalam

Coconut Burfi is a traditional sweet which is very easy to make with very few ingredients and that too under 20 minutes. Traditionally it's prepared with Sugar instead of Jaggery. There are few variations in making Coconut Burfi and this is one of the simpler version.

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Ingredients

• ▢ 1 cup Grated Coconut 1 cup = 250 ml
• ▢ ¾ cup Sugar
• ▢ ¼ tsp Cardamom Powder
• ▢ ½ cup Water
• ▢ 1 tbsp Cashews broken (opetional)

Instructions 

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  Take a tray and grease the tray with ghee and keep it aside. In the final stage the burfi mixture will poured in this tray
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  Grate the coconut and keep it ready. The main trick to get a nice and wonderful white coconut burfi, so grate only half of the coconut. Do not grate till the end as we start getting slightly brown color gratings if we keep on grate. So better take 2 coconuts and grate it till half so that we would get pure white coconut gratings.
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  Heat a pan and add the grated coconut and saute it in low flame till we get a nice aroma. This will take only a minute or two. Do not saute it so much otherwise the coconut would change its colour to light brown
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  Heat a pan with a teaspoon of ghee and add broken cashews and fry them till they are golden brown color. Take this roasted cashews aside. Again heat the pan and add sugar and water. 
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  Keep the flame in medium to low to allow sugar to completely dissolve in the water and melt completely. Cook it till the sugar syrup reaches the thick single string(Getti Kambi Pagu) consistency. If we take a drop of sugar syrup and touch between the fingers, it should form a thick one string. This is the correct consistency.
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  Now add the grated cocunut and mix it well. To this burfi mixture add cardamom powder. We can also add a tablespoon of milk to the when the sugar dissolved that will bring out the dirt out of the sugar. This is another trick to get a nice and white burfi at the end.
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  Stir the burfi mixture continuously by keeping the flame low to avoid sticking in the pan. When the burfi mixture starts to leave the sides of the pan without sticking and when we stir at this stage, a foam will be formed and the mixture will roll like a ball. This is the correct stage to remove the burfi mixture out of the flame. Be alert at this stage to switch off the flame otherwise the mixture will be overcooked and gets powdered. 
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  Pour the burfi mixture in the greasy tray. Allow the burfi mixture to cool off a little and then Make diamond shape / cube pieces of coconut burfi using knife. Take the pieces when the mixture cools off completely and take it in a box and cover it with a lid
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  The yummy cocunut burfi is ready to serve.

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Notes

1. Cocunut Burfi tastes very well only when you prepare it using the fresh cocunut (not the grated cocunut that you get it in the indian shops.). Try to get the fresh cocunut and grate it using the grating plate.
2. Also by mistake if you overcook the burfi and it gets powdered, nothing to worry. Keep the burfi again the flame and sprinkle some water and again mix the mixture well and pour it in greasy plate and make diamond shape pieces.

Nutritional Info

Nutrition Facts

Thengai Burfi | Coconut Burfi

Amount Per Serving (1 piece)

Calories 182 Calories from Fat 69

% Daily Value*

Fat 7.7g12%

Saturated Fat 4.7g29%

Cholesterol 1.8mg1%

Sodium 27mg1%

Potassium 104mg3%

Carbohydrates 29g10%

Fiber 1.8g8%

Sugar 26g29%

Protein 1.6g3%

Vitamin A 50IU1%

Vitamin C 0.8mg1%

Calcium 10mg1%

Iron 0.5mg3%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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Method with step by step pictures :

• Take a tray and grease the tray with ghee and keep it aside
• Grate the coconut and keep it ready. The main trick to get a nice and wonderful white coconut burfi, so grate only half of the coconut. Do not grate till the end as we start getting slightly brown color gratings if we keep on grate. So better take 2 coconuts and grate it till half so that we would get pure white coconut gratings. Heat a pan and add the grated coconut and saute it in low flame till we get a nice aroma. This will take only a minute or two. Do not saute it so much otherwise the coconut would change its colour to light brown

• Heat a pan with a teaspoon of ghee and add broken cashews and fry them till they are golden brown color. Take this roasted cashews aside. Again heat the pan and add sugar and water.

• Keep the flame in medium to low to allow sugar to completely dissolve in the water and melt completely. Cook it till the sugar syrup reaches the thick single string(Getti Kambi Pagu) consistency. If we take a drop of sugar syrup and touch between the fingers, it should form a thick one string. This is the correct consistency. Now add the grated cocunut and mix it well. To this burfi mixture add cardamom powder. We can also add a tablespoon of milk to the when the sugar dissolved that will bring out the dirt out of the sugar. This is another trick to get a nice and white burfi at the end.

• Stir the burfi mixture continuously by keeping the flame low to avoid sticking in the pan. When the burfi mixture starts to leave the sides of the pan without sticking and when we stir at this stage, a foam will be formed and the mixture will roll like a ball. This is the correct stage to remove the burfi mixture out of the flame. Be alert at this stage to switch off the flame otherwise the mixture will be overcooked and gets powdered.

• Pour the burfi mixture in the greasy tray. Allow the burfi mixture to cool off a little and then Make diamond shape / cube pieces of coconut burfi using knife. Take the pieces when the mixture cools off completely and take it in a box and cover it with a lid
• The yummy cocunut burfi is ready to serve.
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Sowmya Venkatachalam

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