Coconut Barfi Recipe | Thenga Barfi Recipe | Nariyal Barfi | Nariyal Ki Barfi, is an Indian sweet made with coconut. This traditional and classic sweet is prepared during special occasions and festivals. Let's discuss today, the preparation of delicious coconut burfi, bakery style.

Coconut barfi - About

Coconut barfi or nariyal barfi is a well-known Indian sweet made with coconut. Both fresh and desiccated coconut can be used for making barji. But barji with fresh coconut is more delicious.

Coconut barfi is not that much popular in Kerala. It is only a bakery item for us. Even after using coconut regularly, we were not a great fan of coconut sweets like laddus, barji etc. May be because of that reason, coconut barfi preparation limits in bakery bormas where they use desiccated coconut indeed.

The coconut barfi recipe we are going to discuss today is a quick and easy one. It uses simple and easily accessible ingredients. As I said earlier, the main ingredient of a coconut barfi is fresh or desiccated coconut. Apart from this sugar, milk and milk powder are used. The top layer is made with rose syrup which you can omit. This I used in order to make the barfi attractive and to get a bakery style feeling. In Malayalam, coconut barfi is called thenga barfi, where the word thenga translate to coconut.

Coconut barfi - Expert's tips

To make coconut barfi, fresh or desiccated coconut can be used.
If using desiccated coconut, do soak it in fresh or warm water to make the barfi soft and moist.
Adjust sugar to your taste.
The top layer is optional. If you don't have the essence, you can avoid it.

How to make Coconut Barji

Please go through the following ingredient list and the recipe instructions. Prepare coconut barji / nariyal ki barfi / thenga barji at your home and enjoy

Coconut Barfi Recipe | Thenga Barfi Recipe | Nariyal Barfi | Nariyal Ki Barfi

Sweet made with coconut

Preparation time: 5 minutes | Cooking time : 15 minutes | Total time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

1.5 cup fresh or desiccated coconut
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup milk powder
2 tablespoon rose syrup (or a pinch of pink food color and quarter teaspoon rose essence)
1.5 tbsp ghee

Preparation of coconut barji with step by step photos

Take a thick bottomed kadai for making the barfi. Put coconut, milk, milk powder, sugar and ghee. Mix well to combine.
Cook on high flame till the sugar melts. Do stir and avoid sticking to the bottom. Once the sugar melts and the mixture became loose or watery, reduce the flame to medium and cook till it the extra moisture evaporate and turns thick.
Transfer 3/4th of the barfi into a greased and lined tray.
To the remaining 1/4 portion, put rose syrup and 2 tablespoon coconut.
Cook over medium flame till well combined and the consistency attained.
Place it on top of the plain barfi which we put one tray.
Add some dry fruits and let it set at room temperature.
Once the barfi turn hard and moist, cut into desired shapes and enjoy.