Diwali recipe - Coconut burfi

Ingredients

Grated coconut - 2 cups
Sugar - 1 cup or 1/2 (according to your taste)
Water - 1 cup
Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
Chopped pistachios or almonds

Procedure

Grease a plate with ghee and set aside. Grate the two coconuts and do not grate till the end as we starts to get brown colour gratings. In a thick pan, add 1 tsp ghee. Add the grated coconut and fry for a minute. Switch off the gas.

In a thick bottomed pan, add 1 cup water. When it starts to boil, add sugar.  Add 1 teaspoon of milk to remove dirt from the milk. Cook the syrup till you get one string consistency.  Now add the grated coconut and stir continously in a low flame. Add a pinch of Kesar colour (my kids like kesar colour so i added that colour to the mixture)or your favourite food colour and mix well. Cook till the burfi mixture leaves the sides of the pan (a thick mixture of burfi). Now pour the burfi mixture in the greased plate. 

In a pan, add a teaspoon of ghee. Fry the chopped pistachios or almonds for a minute. Cut it into diamond shape once it is warm. Garnish with nuts. Yummy kesar coconut burfi ready to serve for diwali.