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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
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