Carrot Burfi

kusum gupta's Note:

Carrots are used widely in India, not only as vegetable, but also to make drinks, pudding and fudge. This fudge can be refrigerated or frozen for quite a long time.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 30 mins
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Yield: 48 pieces

• 3 lbs carrots, scraped and grated
• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 3 cups nonfat dry milk powder
• 2 ounces cups unsalted butter

Seasonings

• 1 teaspoon coarsely crushed cardamom seed

Garnish

• 1/4 cup chopped blanched almond
• 1/4 cup chopped cashews

Directions:

1. In a large skillet, cook the grated carrots and sugar, covered, for about 20 minutes.
2. Add the dry milk; cook, stirring occasionally to avoid sticking at bottom, until no moisture is left (about 1 hour).
3. Stir in the butter.
4. Cook on medium heat until the mixture is of desired consistency that can be spread on a tray and cut into pieces.
5. Add more dry milk as needed.
6. Mix in the cardamoms and spread on a 9 by 13 inches greased cookie sheet.
7. Garnish with nuts.
8. Cut into squares when cold.

Reviews

[Waterskater]

Very tasty. My food processor grating attachment made the carrots too coarse so I took my immersion blender to the mixture between step #2 and #3. My first attempt turned out a bit too wet so I had to roll the dough into balls and dip in milk powder for a kind of truffle looking thing. Next time, I'll really cook out the water in step #2. Delicious and pretty nutritious for a dessert!

[Mosum]

Just made this today very simple recipe and turned out very nice. Better watch the carrots at the end of the hour almost burned my carrots because i was not watching it and stirring as i should have been.

[sweetybaby]

I just made this today.It looks very good to me.I garnished the top with slivered almonds, and I also made only 1/3rd of the recipe.Put it in a rectangular baking dish.I will post again on how it turned out in taste,though texture-wise,it looks good to me.Thanks for the recipe. UPDATE:This turned out really good.The pieces held their shape.I am impressed.Thanks a lot for posting this.