WHEAT HALWA

WHEAT HALWA

Ingredients:
500 grms wheat
750 grms sugar
¼ litre ghee
2 tbs cashew nuts roasted in ghee
¼ tsp cardamom powder
Little yellow colour or saffron if you have.

Method:
Soak the wheat for about 5 hours.
Grind the soaked wheat with just enough water initially, and when the wheat is well ground add more water and grind to a smooth batter.
Strain the batter through a muslin cloth to another container.
Then grind the residue with some more water to extract some more milk from the ground wheat. Strain again. Do this one more time till all the milk has been extracted.
Allow the wheat milk to stand for about 4 hours.
There will be clear water on the top and the milk would have settled down. Decant the water on the top.
The wheat milk is the base for wheat halwa.

Make a syrup with ¼ litre of water . add the yellow colour. when the syrup comes to a one string consistency, mix nicely the wheat milk and add it to the syrup and keep on stirring on a low fire. Add the ghee as you stir.
When it becomes firm add in the cashew nut and the cardamom powder.
Keep on stirring till the ghee oozes out again.
The halwa will look shiny. Spread it on a greases tray.
You can cut into neat slices when cooled.