Today’s recipe is one of the famous south Indian sweet
Halwa, Tirunelveli is famous for this halwa. For traditional godhumai halwa we
need to soak whole wheat for 8 – 10 hours then grind and extract the milk out
of it and then it’s cooked with sugar and ghee. Since it’s a long process tried
this quick version it turned very close to original one. Halwa is one of my
favorite sweet, whenever I have a craving for this my mom use to make maida
halwa in the same way.
Ingredients:
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Whole wheat flour
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1 cup
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Sugar
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1 ½ cup
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Ghee
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¾ cup
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Water
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2 ½ cup
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Cashew nut
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1 ½ Tbsp
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Raisin
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1 Tbsp
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Directions:
- Sift flour in a large mixing bowl, add water and make lump free batter. Batter should be milk consistency so if needed add another half cup of water.
- Heat one tablespoon ghee and roast cashew nut and raisin once it’s done remove and keep aside.
- In the same pan add wheat flour milk with 2 tablespoon of ghee and start to cook on medium heat.
- Keep on stirring within few minutes the mixture will start to thicken, in this stage add half sugar and half portion of ghee.
- Again keep stirring until all ghee is absorbed, then add the remaining ghee and sugar keep stirring.
- After 10 minutes the mixture will start to leave the pan. In this stage add cashew nut and raisin.
- Keep stirring for another 5 minutes or more in one stage the mixture will comes together like dough and looks transparent, turn off the stove.
- Transfer the mixture to greased plate, using a greased flat bottomed bowl smooth the top surface and allow it to cool.
- When it is warm enough to cut grease a sharp knife and slice it as required and enjoy.
Note:
- If you are not sweet toothed use 1 ¼ cup sugar.
- When halwa is done you can see the shininess.
- If you don’t mind about ghee add another 2 tablespoons.
- Instead of whole wheat flour you can use atta flour too.
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