Jafraani Moong Daal Burfi

Ingredients

1 cup Sugar

1 cup water

1 cup Mawa or khoya

¾ cup Ghee

1 tbls Pistachios thinly chopped

1 tbls almonds thinly chopped

¼ tsp green cardamom powder

Few strands of saffrons or yellow colour

Method (How to make Moong Dal ki barfi)

Wash moong dal and soak in water for 3 hours.  Drain the water and grind dal in mixture grinder. 

Heat ghee in a non stick pan and add ground dal into it. Stir dal constantly and cook on low-medium flame. Till the ghee starts separating from dal and it smells delicious. Dal is cooked. It take 20-25 minutes for roasting dal.

Now roast mawa in a nonstick pan till lightly brown in colour. Remove from the flame and mix moong dal into it.

Boil water along with sugar for making sugar syrup for  barfi. When water starts boiling, cook for 1-2 more minutes. Sugar syrup is now ready. Now add saffron or yellow color in  to syrup for barfi. 

Add roasted daal and mawa in the sugar syrup and mix well. Now cook mixture in low flame and stir constantly until it thickens in consistency. Mix cardamom powder into it. Mixture is ready, turn off the flame. 

Grease one plate or try with ghee and pour mixture over it. Spread evenly. Sprinkle chopped pistachios and almonds and press them gently. Within 2 hours barfi will get set. Now cut this mixture in square pieces. Moong dal barfi is ready.