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Shenga Barfis

New Year is here! Let’s us start this new year on a sweet note. A fun to make recipe, shenga barfis. Made with roasted groundnuts mixed into melted jaggery and ghee. Now, what can go bad with that 🙂
Sankranti/Pongal planning has to start soon. This year the harvest festival is on the 14th of January. Make simple sweets like shenga unde, shenga chikki along with these shenga barfis. They will make your Sankranti/Pongal celebration special.
These shenga barfis can be cut into any shape, I have cut them into small squares. Small squares are ideal to distribute amongst friends and colleagues. Everyone can just grab a little barfi and help themselves with more.

The only thing to remember with these shenga barfis is to sauté the barfi mixture to correct consistency. If mixture is overheated, then barfis become chewy or if underheated it does not set. It should be just right. Having said that, it is hard to make them go wrong. Your instincts will guide you through, I assure you!
Once again, happy new year! Plan upcoming festivities with fervour of first festival of the year, Sankranti/Pongal. Enjoy!
More groundnut recipes on FOI. Of course choose from any sweets you like for this occasion along with these festival recipes.

Shenga Barfis | How to make groundnut barfi? | Sankranti Recipes
 
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Mini cut groundnut or shenga barfis - something for the sweet tooth
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Recipe type: Sweet
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 30~, 1" barfis
Ingredients
  • 200 gm roasted unsalted groundnuts yielding 1½ Cup ground coarse powder
  • ¾ Cup to 1 Cup jaggery
  • ¼ Cup + ½ Tbsp ghee
  • 4-5 powdered cardamom/elaichi
Method
  1. Pulse roasted groundnuts into a coarse powder
  2. Grate or soften jaggery
  3. In a pan, pour ghee and allow it to melt
  4. Add jaggery, let it melt into the ghee, mix well
  5. Add cardamom powder and mix well with ghee
  6. Tip in the groundnut powder, mix well
  7. Next add ½ Tbsp ghee
  8. Keep sauteing till mixture leaves pan, this takes around 2-3 minutes. You should be able to see a shine or glisten
  9. Pour into a greased pan, pat surface, let it cool for a few minutes
  10. Cut into mini barfis
  11. Lay these barfis out for your offerings and celebrations!
Notes
Make sure to use unsalted groundnuts and de-skin them after roasting. Check shenga unde recipe on how to roast and de-skin groundnuts

Do NOT overheat barfi mixture

Cut barfis into any desired shape

Make sure jaggery is not very dry, it should be soft and pure
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Shenga Barfis Stepwise:
Pulse roasted groundnuts into a coarse powder
 

Grate or soften jaggery


In a pan, pour ghee and allow it to melt
 

Add jaggery, let it melt into the ghee, mix well
   

Add cardamom powder and mix well with ghee


Tip in the groundnut powder, mix well
   

Next add 1/2 Tbsp ghee
 

Keep sauteing till mixture leaves pan, this takes around 2-3 minutes. You should be able to see a shine or glisten


Pour into a greased pan, pat surface, let it cool for a few minutes
  

Cut into mini barfis
  

Lay these barfis out for your offerings and celebrations!

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