Coconut Burfi

Ingredients

Fresh grated coconut      2 cups
Sugar                               1 cup
Water                               1 cup
Cardamom powder          2 tsp
Ghee                                1 tbsp
Walnuts                            1/2 cup chopped

Heat a pan add the grated coconut and fry over a moderate heat for sometime.It is enough if you warm the grated coconut.Keep it aside. Meanwhile in another vessel boil water and add the spicified sugar and keep on stirring till sugar and water boil together.When the sugar syrup reaches a thick syrupy stage or 1 string consistency (makes a single thread when pinched between 2 fingers).Add the coconut gratings to it.Keep stirring till the coconut and sugar syrup are blended thickly and stickily together.Now add the ghee, cardamom powder and the chopped walnuts.Stir till the mixture looks thick and frothy.Remove from heat and transfer it to a ghee smeared plate.Flatten the surface with the help of a greased ladle.When cold cut into diamond shapes or sqaures and serve.