Wholemeal Burfi

It seems like I can blog my recipes only over the weekend....weekdays I am being damn busy...tuesday 30th of Oct was my birthday and I had no time even to pamper myself with my favourite food item atleast..added to this I had to start off to work at 5.30AM that day...I've booked my holidays in December and 'm counting days...huhhh!

Anyways coming to the recipe I was craving for some festive sweets for the past few days....I just made pulihora for Dasara and did no rituals...Even for Diwali I don't think I can perform the pooja bcoz it's on Friday and fridays are the most busiest for me now a days...So I made my Diwali sweet today itself...coconut burfi, besan burfi are the normal versions of Burfi I make..but this time I wanted to try something else...and there were few left over bread slices...recently I've come across the procedure to make bread crumbs on video jug....So I decided to make bread burfi..I just followed the traditional version of besan burfi made by my mom, just replaced besan with finely ground bread crumbs...The taste was delicious especially I loved the color....I used wholemeal bread and hence I've got a dark brown color to the burfi...

So here's my Diwali treat to my blog buddies...

Ingredients:

Bread Slices (white/brown) - 6 - maked about 2 cups of fine crumbs

Sugar - 1 cup

Milk - 1 cup

Water - 1 cup

Ghee - 1 table spoon

Elachi powder (cardamom powder) - 1 large pinch

Almonds - 10

Procedure:

1. Place the bread slices on a baking tray and bake in a oven at 120C for 30min. Do not bake at higher temperatures orelse the bread slices will get burnt. After 30min the breadslices turn very crispy.

2. Break these crispy slices into chunks and grind them to a fine powder. Set this powder aside.

3. In a wide pan heat the Ghee and roast the almonds for a couple of minutes and set aside.

4. In the same ghee add the finely ground bread crumbs and roast for 2-3 minutes. Take this roasted crumbs powder in a bowl.

5. Now in the same pan add one cup of water and bring to boil.

6. When the water starts boiling add the sugar and keep stirring.

7. The sugar syrup starts thickening after a few minutes. At this stage quickly add the bread crumbs flour and keep stirring to avoid forming lumps.

8. Add the milk and elachi powder to this and keep stirring for 3-5min.

9. When the mixture starts thickening remove from heat.

10. Grease a plate with ghee and pour this mixture into the plate. Level the top with a spatula.

11. Let it cool for 2hrs. Cut into desired shapes and garnish with roasted almonds.

Note: If the mixture doesn't get hard enough put it in a freezer for 30min to cut into desired shapes.

This' my entry to (Jihva Special Edition: The Festive Series) JFS:Diwali hosted by dear Vee of Past Present and Me