Chocolate Mawa Barfi (Fudge)

Hello Friends!!! It's Navratri and it's celebration time again. The word "Navratri" means nine nights. During these nine nights and ten days, nine forms of Devi are worshipped. Navaratri is an important major festival and is celebrated all over India. In North India, all three Navaratris are celebrated with much fervor by fasting on all nine days and worshiping the Mother Goddess in her different forms. The last four days of Sharad Navaratri take on a particularly dramatic form in the state of West Bengal in eastern India where they are celebrated as Durga Puja. This is the biggest festival of the year in this state. In the Punjab, Navaratri is known as Navratras or Navratey where the first seven days are for fasting. On the eighth day or Ashtami, devotees break their fasts by calling young girls home and these girls are treated as the goddess herself. In Western India, particularly in the state of Gujarat and Mumbai, Navaratri is celebrated with the famous Garba and Dandiya Raas dance.

The nine days of this festival are celebrated all over with great enthusiasm. People prepare various types of sweet as well savoury dishes to serve goddess in these nine days. Today, I have bought a sweet recipe for you. It's Chocolate Mawa Barfi or Chocolate and dried whole milk fudge. It is very simple as well as quick recipe.

Preparation Time: 5 mins

Cooking Time: 10 mins

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

Khoya or Khava/Mawa or Dried Whole milk - 1 cup

Powdered Sugar - 1/4 cup

Cocoa Powder - 1 tspn

Cardamom Powder - 1/4 tspn

Vanilla Essence - 1 drop

Assorted nuts of your choice - 2 tspn

Method:

1. Heat a heavy bottom pan and add khoya/mawa to it. Saute for 2 mins.

2. Add powdered sugar to it and keep on mixing for about 7-10 mins till the mixture leaves side of pan and forms a dough.

3. Switch off the flame and take half of the mixtur in a bowl.

4. To the remaining half mixture in the pan, add cocoa powder and a drop of vanilla essence and mix well.

5. To the other half of the mixture add cardamom powder.

6. Take a cake tin or plate in which you will be setting the barfi. Grease it with little ghee.

7. Spread the white mixture evenly. Spread it using your fingers.

8. On top of it add the brown mixture and spread evenly so that you get two layers, white and brown. (P.S Video below)

9. Garnish them with some chopped dryfruits/nuts.

10. Cool it at room temperature for 15 mins then refrigerate it for 30 mins. (Make sure you don't keep it for more time in fridge, or else it will be difficult to cut in pieces).

11. Cut it in desired shape and serve.