Quick Condensed Milk Coconut Burfi
A wholesome Indian recipe crafted for health-conscious eating: nutritious, delicious, and easy to make at home.
Desiccated coconut cooked with condensed milk and ghee until thick — a fast coconut burfi for last-minute trays.
Coconut burfi is a three ingredient sweet that is ready in 15 minutes. Desiccated coconut and condensed milk are cooked together until thick, then set and cut. It is a quick fix for festivals.
Ingredients
How to Make It
Roast coconut lightly in ghee.
Add condensed milk; cook thick.
Set and cut.
Nutrition per serving
* Approximate values per serving
Health Benefits
Quick mithai — keep squares tiny because condensed milk is sweet. Cardamom lifts flavour without extra sugar.
Condensed milk gives sweetness and binding, so no sugar syrup is needed. Roasting the coconut gives a toasty taste.
Pro Tips
- →Low flame.
- →Don’t scorch.
- →Cool before cut.
- →Roast the coconut on low heat. It burns quickly.
- →Cook until the mix leaves the sides of the pan.
- →Set in a greased tray and cut when cool.
A calorie note
Most of the calories in this dish come from a few ingredients. For reference, per 100 g: Ghee: about 876 kcal (about 40 kcal per teaspoon); Fresh coconut: about 354 kcal; Whole milk: about 61 kcal. Measure these with a spoon or scale, because small changes here move the total more than anything else. Values are rounded from USDA FoodData Central and the Indian Food Composition Tables (IFCT 2017), as of 13 Oct 2026, and vary by variety and by table. General information, not medical advice.
Variations
- 1Cocoa swirl.
- 2Rose.
- 3Add cardamom or rose essence.
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