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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Wheat Halwa


Ingredients:

  1. Whole wheat (wheat grains) – 1 cup
  2. Sugar – 2 cups
  3. Cardamom  powder – 1 teaspoon
  4. Ghee – 4 tablespoons 
  5.  Yellow colour – 1 pinch
  6. Chopped  Cashew, Almonds fried in 2 teaspoon ghee - 1/4 cup

Method


  • Wash and soak the wheat for 4 hours.
  • Grind in a mixie adding 1 cup water. 
  • Strain through a seive to get a thick milk. 
  • Grind again adding 1 more cup of water and strain again.Repeat the p[rocess until  You will be left out with only the husk in the seive. Add enough water to squeeze out all the milk.
  • Pour the milk in to a thick bottomed pan, add sugar and the food colour.Cook on a low flame. 
  • Keep stirring continously.
  • Add the ghee when the halwa starts thickening. Add the cardamom powder .Mix well.
  • Cook till you can roll the halwa into a ball with your fingers.
  • Add chopped nuts sauted in ghee. 


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