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Thinai Halwa

Thinai halwa/ Foxtail millet halwa

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Thinai halwa

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

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Thinai halwa/ Foxtail millet halwa

Print Recipe
Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 20 minutes mins
Total Time 30 minutes mins
Servings: 5
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients Method

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

Method
 

To powder foxtail millet
  1. Take 1 cup of foxtail millet in a blender jar
  2. Grind it into powder(no need of fine powder)
To melt the jaggery
  1. Take the jaggery in a pan, add ¼ cup of water, heat it and also mix well
  2. Once the jaggery got dissolved in water, turn off the flame and keep aside
To make halwa
  1. pour the ¼ cup of ghee in a pan, heat it
  2. Add cashews, once the cashews half done, add raisins
  3. Fry it in a medium flame to golden color, take off from the pan
  4. In the same pan, with remaining ghee, add powdered foxtail millet flour
  5. roast it in low flame for 5 minutes
  6. 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)
  7. mix well till the water shrinks
  8. Now strain the jaggery straight away inthe pan of millet-water mixture
  9. Mix well, till it shrinks, and start to thicken, Add the 1 tbsp of ghee, mix
  10. Then add cardamom powder and fried cashews and raisins
    Now the halwa is ready

Stepwise Picture Recipe:

Take 1 cup of jaggery in a pan
Add 1/4 cup of water
Mix well to dissolve it in water, then turn off the flame and keep aside
Heat 1/4 cup of ghee in a pan
Put the cashews first, once it is half done, add raisins, fry it to golden color, then take off
Add the foxtail millet flour in the same pan with the same ghee
Roast it in low flame for 5 minutes
Add 4 cups of hot water (turn off the flame and mix well to avoid lumps, once you are sure millet completely mixed with water then turn on the flame and keep stirring)
Stir well to avoid lumps in low flame
keep stirring in low flame till water content shrinks
Add the jaggery by stain it straight away in this pan
Mix well
Once the mixture thickens and it reaches halwa consistency, add 1 tbsp of ghee
add the cardamom powder
Serve with love

Note :

I have added 1 tbsp of ghee at the end if you want you can increase the ghee amount.

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