Sutarfeni

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Sutarfeni

Course	Dessert
Place of origin	India
Main ingredients	Rice or wheat dough, nuts
Variations	Multiple
Cookbook: Sutarfeni   Media: Sutarfeni

Sutarfeni is an Indian sweet, shredded, flaky - rice-flour roasted in ghee (clarified butter), blended with melted sugar to form a cotton candy, and topped with finely chopped pistachio and almonds. The product is typically flavored with powdered cardamom. It may be white in color, scented with floral essences such as rose water or screwpine, or it may be colored and flavored with saffron.

History[]

Strand-like pheni were Phenakas mentioned in various Indian texts. Phenakas is a broad term which includes various dishes prepared by using layered fried dough. Vijayanagar records indicate that Pheni was another much relished sweet dish prepared from wheat flour and sugar, similar to phenaka of North India and had varieties like sugar pheni, milk pheni and vermicelli pheni^[1][2][3]

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