Kobbari Carrot burfi or mitayi is very easy to make tasty sweet using jaggery. You can prepare this on festivals like Ganesha, Gowri, Gokulashtami, navarathri as well.
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Ingredients for making kobbari carrot burfi:
- 2 cups of grated dried coconut( take only the white part)
- 1 cup grated carrot
- 2 cups jaggery(powdered)
- ½ cup water
- 3 tbsp ghee
- 3 cardamom
Method:
- grease the plate with ghee and keep it ready
- Melt the jaggery with ½ cup of water on medium heat.
- Powder dried coconut along with cardamom to a coarse texture
- Transfer this powder toa thick bottom pan
- Grind the carrot to a fine paste (add water if required)
- Transfer this carrot paste to the powdered coconut
- Strain the melted jaggery to the coconut-carrot mix
- Mix , and keep this on stove on medium low heat, keep stirring,
- Once it becomes little thick, add a TBSP ghee, keep stirring the mix.add the ghee in intervals
- Stir this until the burfi mix leaves the pan
- Now the burfi mix leaves the pan, turn off the heat and transfer it to a greased plate, flatten it
- While the burfi mix is still warm, grease the knife and cut this into desired shape and size
Variation:
- instead of carrot you can use pineapple,beetroot or prepare just the coconut and jaggery.