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tirunelveli halwa | godhumai halwa

tirunelveli halwa | godhumai halwa | wheat halwa recipe

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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
soaking time 2 hours
Total Time 3 hours 10 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine South Indian
Servings 580 gram

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup wheat flour
  • ½ cup water for kneading
  • 4 cup water for soaking
  • cup sugar
  • ¾ cup ghee
  • ¼ tsp cardamom powder
  • 1 tbsp chopped cashews

Instructions
 

  • keep the greased container ready

Soaking:

  • Take 1 cup of wheat flour and ½ cup of water
    knead well into a smooth dough
  • add in 4 cups of water and soak it for 2 hour

Extract the wheat milk from the dough:

  • After 2 hour, take the bowl of dough and water, just squeeze the dough and mix
    (the milk-like thing start to dissolve in water)
  • Next strain the water-wheat flour milk mixture
    (you will get the wheat milk alone)
  • discard the semi-solid residue comes while straining

Making halwa:

  • Heat the pan, add 2 tbsp of sugar, keep the flame low until it becomes brown color (caramalized)
  • In another pan, pour in the wheat milk, keep stirring in the medium flame,
    then add caramelized sugar and mix well
  • Keep stirring it for 20 minutes
    Meanwhile, add 1 ½ cup of sugar, mix well
  • After 30 minutes, start adding ghee, Keep stirring in the low-medium flame by adding ghee in batches
  • At one stage, halwa leaves the sides of the pan, gathers together as a mass,
    In that stage keep the flame low, pour in remaining ghee, and mix
  • Now add cardamom powder and fried cashews. Mix
  • Transfer this halwa into a greased container
Keyword godhumai halwa, tirunelveli halwa, wheat halwa recipe