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

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Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

Total Time 30

Course Dessert

Cuisine Indian

Servings 5

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 raisins
Now the halwa is ready