The best, healthy, energetic and nutritious dry fruit barfi is here today. According to me, it’s truly a soul satisfying sweet thing. Because it has all the goodness of nuts and only nuts. No added sugar and jaggery. And that fact makes me so very happy. No guilt feeling even after eating barfi after barfi.
Dry fruit barfi can be whipped up just at any point of time provided you have jar full of all nuts in your pantry. It’s not overly sweet, not heavy, just wholesome and filling. This is a feel good snacking option for kids who love to eat 24/7.
For dry fruit barfi, I use dates in large quantity which is the primary sweetener for this energy bar. Use of good quality dates that is soft, easy to bite is preferred. De-seed the dates and whir them together in mixer. This step gets the dates in to dough form. You may have to run the mixer many times with some gap to get the perfect texture of dates. Next, sauteing the dates paste in some ghee helps to subside the raw smell. Which my take around 5 minutes.
Once you have the dates dough ready, powdering all other nuts and mixing with dates paste makes barfi mixture. I just rolled the mixture and let it rest in fridge for 15 to 20 minutes. Refrigeration helps to cut the barfi in to perfect shape. You can store this barfi for long and can relish as any time snack.
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Dry fruit Barfi | Dry fruit Burfi | No Sugar
Ingredients
- 1 cup Dates seedless
- 1/2 cup Cashew + Pistachio + Walnut
- 1/2 cup Almonds
- 2 tsp Ghee
- 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder
- 1/2 tsp Poppy seeds
Instructions
- Take the seedless dates in mixer and grind it coarsely. Do not add any water. You can use pulse mode to grind.
- Next, heat a pan with ghee. Add ground dates paste and saute for 5 minutes. The raw smell subsides and the mixture turns like dough. Next take the nuts (cashew+ pistachio+walnut) in a mixer and whirl to coarse powder.
- Similarly coarsely grind almonds and keep it ready. Transfer the sauteed dates in a bowl.
- Add powdered nuts and almonds to the same bowl. Mix well with your fingers. Sprinkle poppy seeds all over and roll it over baking sheet.
- Cover it with same sheet and refrigerate for an hour. Then cut in to pieces.
- This sugar free dry fruit barfi is healthy and nutritious. It last longer as well.
Notes
- The mixer may stuck while grinding dates. Use pulse mode and do it in turns.
- You can include the nuts of your choice. But ensure that quantity of dates is equal to or more than nuts.
- Refrigeration helps to get the burfi shape.
- You can store it for more than 15 days.
