There are so many millet recipes blooming because of the awareness of the health benefits of millets, This Thinai halwa/ Foxtail millet halwa is a nice dessert using jaggery. Foxtail millet has lots of antioxidants, so we can add up this millet in our diet in different ways.
Let us see how tho make Thinai halwa/ Foxtail millet halwa
Thinai halwa/ Foxtail millet halwa
Ingredients
- ¼ cup ghee (+1 tbsp ghee)
- 1 tbsp cashews
- 1 tbsp raisins
- 1 cup foxtail millet
- 1 cup jaggery
- 4 cups water (+¼ cup of water to melt jaggery)
- ¼ tsp cardamom
Instructions
To powder foxtail millet
- Take 1 cup of foxtail millet in a blender jar
- Grind it into powder(no need of fine powder)
To melt the jaggery
- Take the jaggery in a pan, add ¼ cup of water, heat it and also mix well
- Once the jaggery got dissolved in water, turn off the flame and keep aside
To make halwa
- pour the ¼ cup of ghee in a pan, heat it
- Add cashews, once the cashews half done, add raisins
- Fry it in a medium flame to golden color, take off from the pan
- In the same pan, with remaining ghee, add powdered foxtail millet flour
- roast it in low flame for 5 minutes
- Then add 4 cups of hot water and stir on low to medium flame ( if you are not sure the flour got mixed up with the water, turn off the flame, mix well, then turn on the flame, so it avoids forming lumps)
- mix well till the water shrinks
- Now strain the jaggery straight away inthe pan of millet-water mixture
- Mix well, till it shrinks, and start to thicken, Add the 1 tbsp of ghee, mix
- Then add cardamom powder and fried cashews and raisinsNow the halwa is ready
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Note :
I have added 1 tbsp of ghee at the end if you want you can increase the ghee amount.
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