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Saturday, March 6, 2010

Karachi Halwa

INGREDIENTS:
2 Cups soaked rava
1 Cup ghee
1- 1/2 Cup sugar
1/4 Cup cashew nuts
1/4 Cup walnuts
2 tsp Cardamom powder
2 tsp Essence
4 tbsp Water

METHOD:
How to make Karachi Halwa:
Put 4 tbsp ghee in microwave for few seconds.
Mix cashew nuts and walnuts.
Microwave this mixture for 5 minutes.
Separate cashew nuts and keep it for few minutes.
Add sugar and 4 tbsp water to the ghee.
Microwave it for 2 minutes and stir it.
Mix rava, cardamom powder and more ghee.
Microwave this mixture for 3 seconds on high temperature.
Add essence and dry fruits.
Karachi Halva is ready.

Crunchy Sohan Halwa

INGREDEINTS:
1 kg Corn flour
1 kg Sugar
1 kg Ghee
1 Cup milk
100 gms Almonds
100 gms Pistachios• 1 tsp Saffron

METHOD:
Mix corn flour in 1 cup of water
Allow it to dissolve properly
Dissolve saffron in water
Mix 3 cups of water in sugar and boil for it for sometime
Add milk and boil it for 5 minutes
Mix corn flour and saffron mixture to it
Cook the mixture over medium heat
As the mixture turns thick, start adding oil
Continue adding oil and stirring till the mixture gets separated
Add almonds and pistachios
Place this mixture on greased plate
Keep it for cooling for a while
Cut into square pieces
Crunchy Delicious Sohan Halva is ready to eat.

Badam Halwa

INGREDIENTS:
1 Cup Almonds
2-1/2 Cups Sugar
3 Cup Water
2 Cups Ghee
1 Pinch Saffron

METHOD:
Soak almonds in a bowl with boiling water.
Remove the skin of almonds and make fine paste by grinding them in a grinder.
Boil sugar with one cup of water in a pan, till it turns into syrup.
Add almond paste to the boiling syrup and mix it well.
Dilute saffron in a little water and add to the syrup.
Instantly mix one-cup ghee.
As the above mixture turns paste-like, pour the remaining ghee gradually.
A batter like mixture will be formed after sometime. Now remove it from the flame.

Daal Moong Halwa

INGREDIENTS:
2 Cups soaked Moong Dal
1 Cup milk • 2 Cups sugar
3/4 Cup khoya
2 Cups ghee
1/2 Cup mixed dry fruits (Almonds, Cashewnuts, and Raisins)

Method:
Grind the soaked dal using little water to make a paste.
Prepare sugar syrup.
Heat ghee and add moong dal paste to it.
Stir it properly.
Reduce the flame, add milk to it and cook until the milk thickens.
Add sugar syrup to the moong dal and mix it well.
Cook it for 5 minutes.
Now add khoya till it dissolves.
Adorn it with dry fuits.
Moong Dal Halwa is ready to serve.