Simple, practical, and full of everyday flavour, Badam Burfi - Almond Fudge And Basundi is a vegan, vegetarian Indian dessert made with vegan butter, maple syrup, and smooth almond butter in about 10 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.

Recipe Snapshot

  • Prep time: 5 minutes
  • Cook time: 5 minutes
  • Total time: 10 minutes
  • Yield: 2
  • Category: Dessert
  • Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp vegan butter (or use refined coconut oil)
  • 2 tbsp maple syrup
  • 2 tbsp smooth almond butter
  • a good pinch of salt
  • 1/4 tsp ground cardamom or other flavors like cinnamon (extracts of choice or none)
  • 1 to 1.5 tbsp cane sugar or fine granulated sugar
  • 1/3 to 1/2 cup fine almond flour (not meal)
  • 2 tsp flour of choice

Method

  1. Heat vegan butter and maple syrup over medium low heat. Once melted, add almond butter and mix for a few seconds. Take off heat and continue to mix to make a smooth mixture.
  2. Cool for a minute. Fold in salt, flavors, sugar and almond flour and mix in. Add more almond flour or regular flour or oat flour if needed until mixture is somewhat a soft dough.
  3. Pat it onto parchment to a 1/4 inch thick square. Sprinkle almond slivers or pistachio slivers and chill for atleast half an hour. Slice and serve.

Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note

Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.