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Thinai halwa/ Foxtail millet halwa

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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
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
Keyword foxtail millet halwa, Thinai halwa