Recipe for Shoka Halwa
Ingredients
- Halwa flour moong dal 250,
- Sabudana 50 gm grind together
- Wheat flour 2 tbsp
- Sugar 1-1/2 cupOrange food color pinch
- Ghee or clarified butter 1 cup
- Cardamom pods 2
- Almonds 8-10
- Raisin 2 tbsp
- Boiling water 1 cup
Cooking Directions
Mix 250 grams moong dal and 50 grams sabudana, grind it to make a fine powder. Use the required amount of flour.
Preparation of Halwa:
Heat 1/4 cup of ghee in a wide pan.
Add halwa flour and wheat flour to the pan and start frying.
Add more ghee and keeping stirring until flour is completely soaked in ghee and becomes a smooth.
Meanwhile boil water on the other stove and keep it ready.
Add 1 cup of boiling water to the flour and mix well without forming any lumps.
Keep stirring over medium heat or even low heat until flour is cooked well. It takes about 5 minutes.
Mix food color in a tbsp of water and add it to the flour little at a time stirring well till you get the desired color.
When it is cooked and becomes thick slowly add sugar 1/2 cup at a time.
Let it incorporate well before each addition.
Keep stirring constantly and when it becomes harder to stir add ghee little at a time and continue stirring.
The mixture will start leaving the sides of the pan and becomes thick.
When it reaches this consistency.
Halwa is ready, add garnish and serve.
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