Easy Banana Burfi - Peda Recipe

This one has to be one of the quickest and easiest indian sweet recipes (considering how difficult they are to make).

Like most of the time in my house, whenever a new recipe is tried out, I’m usually the first person to experiment the taste. Later depending on whether I have survived the taste experiment ;-), the dish is then given to others.

This one was prepared in the evening after a local Kannada Channel (Suvarna TV) broadcast it. They called it Banana Peda, but I chose to name it Banana Peda-Burfi as the texture is between a soft peda and a hard Burfi.

The sweet sticks in your mouth and as it cools, it becomes harder. So it is advisable that it is eaten as soon as it is made.

This dessert goes well as an evening snack along with some Goli Baje and some tea. I’m sure everyone in your family will enjoy this.

Banana Peda-Burfi

Ingredients:

• Ripe Bananas - Yellow ones with black spots variety, but into small squares - 4
• Ghee (clarified butter) - 2 tablespoons
• Sugar - 1/4 tablespoon
• Cashewnuts- 3 to 4

Method:

1. Heat ghee in a pan.
2. Put Bananas (cut into small squares) into the ghee and add the sugar to it.
3. In a medium flame, keep stirring continuously till it forms a halva-like consistency (more about sugar-consistency here)
4. After a few minutes this will thicken. Form round balls or shape like a small vada.
5. Decorate the Peda with Cashewnuts on top.
6. Serve as an evening snack with tea.

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A small collection of Banana Desserts at our main website

Banana Halva recipe from Sukh-Dukh.com

Banana Walnut Cake from Mahanandi (blog)