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    Home » Sweets and Desserts » Chocolate Coconut Burfi ~ A twist to the Traditional Delicious Indian Sweet!

    Chocolate Coconut Burfi ~ A twist to the Traditional Delicious Indian Sweet!

    Published: Jan 18, 2011 · Modified: May 10, 2021 by Srivalli · 15 Comments

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    Coconut Burfi is one of my Amma's signature sweets. I have many of my friends asking for this special treat from her. Most times I request her to make for all special occasions. When I had made it for the first time some years ago for the Blogger meet, it again received the same response.
    Hubby dear loves coconut burfi too and whenever we have excess coconut at home, we end up making this. So when decided to make homemade sweets for our sils, he suggested we make this also. And I thought making a chocolate burfi will make it more interesting for the lil ones.
    For sure, they loved this chocolate treat which gave a new twist to the already delicious sweet.

    Chocolate Coconut Burfi Recipe

    Ingredients Needed:

    Grated Coconut - 1 cup
    Cocoa powder - 2 tsp
    Sugar - 1 cup
    Ghee - 1 tbsp
    Cardamom a pinch

    Method to prepare:

    Grate the coconut. Grating this when it is fresh is always best.

    Add water enough to just cover the sugar and melt the sugar. Once you remove the scum, if any, bring the syrup to a boil. The syrup has to be of one thread consistency.

    Add the grated coconut, cardamom powder, to the sugar syrup. Stir well so that it gets mixed fully! Keep stirring or else it might get burnt. You will know it's done when the coconut starts coming off the pan. Add the cocoa powder at this stage, stir well again.

    For more taste, you can powder some cashew nuts and add.

    Grease a plate on which you are going to set this. Then once the barfi is done, pour on to the greased plate. Just tap the plate down, it will get set automatically. Using a greased spatula, spread on the top for an even spread.

    With a knife, make horizontal lines and then do a cross-line across to get a diamond-shaped Barfi. I have always seen only diamond-shaped ones. But this time had a square one done.

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    Chocolate Coconut Burfi ~ A twist to the Traditional Delicious Indian Sweet!

    Author Srivalli

    Ingredients

    • 1 cup Coconut grated
    • 2 tsp Cocoa Powder
    • 1 cup Sugar
    • 1 tbsp Ghee
    • A pinch Cardamom Powder

    Instructions

    How to make Chocolate Coconut Burfi

    • Grate the coconut. Grating this when it is fresh is always best.
    • Add water enough to just cover the sugar and melt the sugar. Once you remove the scum, if any, bring the syrup to a boil. The syrup has to be of one thread consistency.
    • Add the grated coconut, cardamom powder, to the sugar syrup. Stir well so that it gets mixed fully! Keep stirring or else it might get burnt. You will know it's done when the coconut starts coming off the pan. Add the cocoa powder at this stage, stir well again.
    • For more taste, you can powder some cashew nuts and add.
    • Grease a plate on which you are going to set this. Then, once the barfi is done, pour on to the greased plate. Just tap the plate down, it will get set automatically. Using a greased spatula, spread on the top for an even spread.
    • With a knife, make horizontal lines and then do a cross-line across to get a diamond-shaped Barfi. I have always seen only diamond-shaped ones. But, this time had a square one done.
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    1. divya says

      January 18, 2011 at 1:06 pm

      Great looking,catchy and yummy, absolutely inviting.

      Reply
    2. Archana says

      January 18, 2011 at 2:01 pm

      This is one of my favourite sweets(I like any sweet) and my husbands too. I will try it this way to get the kids interested.

      Reply
    3. veena krishnakumar says

      January 18, 2011 at 2:23 pm

      I do coconut burfi but never thought about this combo. Looks yumm Must try again:-)

      Reply
    4. Gayathri Kumar says

      January 18, 2011 at 2:31 pm

      Very interesting twist to the regular recipe..

      Reply
    5. Apu says

      January 18, 2011 at 2:46 pm

      Chocolate and coconut yumm!!

      Reply
    6. Umm Mymoonah says

      January 18, 2011 at 3:37 pm

      Wow! It's full of chocolate mania, lots of innovative recipes with chocolate. Looks very yummy.

      Reply
    7. Krithi's Kitchen says

      January 18, 2011 at 4:21 pm

      Coconut Burfi looks awesome.. my hubby's fav..

      Reply
    8. PriyaVaasu says

      January 18, 2011 at 6:18 pm

      Bookmarking this for my Kid!!! he loves anything chocolate!!!!! Very inviting burfi!!!1

      Reply
    9. Priya says

      January 18, 2011 at 6:34 pm

      Yumm, feel like munching..irresistible burfi..

      Reply
    10. meeso says

      January 18, 2011 at 8:09 pm

      Mmmmm, gimmee!

      Reply
    11. My attempt at The Julie/Julia project says

      January 19, 2011 at 4:54 am

      Love the interting twist 🙂
      bookmarked 🙂

      Reply
    12. Anonymous says

      January 19, 2011 at 8:54 am

      i hv a query, we need fresh coconut or dry coconut. pls tell me. tks

      Reply
    13. Srivalli says

      January 19, 2011 at 9:35 am

      AnonCoconut Burfi will come out well only mostly with freshly grated coconut. When my mom tried with dry coconut, it consumed more sugar and couldn't retain it's shape, it become rather more like a halwa. But taste wise it will be good as it will have oil

      Reply
    14. Anonymous says

      April 02, 2011 at 3:07 am

      Want to try this but couldn't find unsweetened coconut so I want to replace it with sweetened found in most grocery store Can u please tell me the amount of sugar that will go with sweetened coconut please reply
      Thanks in advance

      Reply
    15. Srivalli says

      April 02, 2011 at 8:48 am

      Anon I am not sure of the amount as I don't know how sweet the coconut will be. Maybe you can try using half the amount and experiment.

      Reply

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