Food blogger Priya Shiva tells us how to make a popular South Indian sweet using seven cups of ingredients.

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Here's the recipe for 7 Cup Barfi

Ingredients

• 1 cup bengal gram flour/ besan/chickpeas flour
• 1 1/2 cup (melted) ghee/clarified butter
• 1 cup grated carrot
• 1 cup milk
• 2 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 green cardamom

Method

• Grease a square plate with ghee and keep it aside.
• Remove the seeds of green cardamom from the pods and powder it.
• Saute carrot for few minutes in a pan till you get rid of the raw smell.
• Add all ingredients in a heavy bottom pan and mix it well. Make sure there are no lumps.
• Place the pan on the gas stove on low flame and stir continuously for few minutes on low heat.
• You'll see the mixture bubbling and ghee leaving the sides of the pan.
• Add cardamom powder and keep stirring.
• When it takes the form of a dough, transfer the content into the ghee-greased plate and allow it to cool for a few minutes.
• When it is still warm cut into square pieces.
• When it cools down store in an air-tight container.

Photo: Priya Shiva

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