Asoka Halwa Recipe

 

Ingredients

Ghee - 1 cup

Cardomoms - 6

Cashewnuts - 10

Asoka Halwa Recipe

Moong dal - 1 cup

wheat flour - 1 cup,

Sugar - 11/2 cup

Kesari powder - 1/4 tsp

Chopped almonds - 2 tsp

Add 1/2 cup water to 1 cup moong dal and cook in pressure cooker until it becomes soft.

Method

• To 1 cup wheat flour, add 1/2 cup waterand make into a thick liquid.
• Heat this liquid in a fry pan and stir for a while.
• Mash the cooked moong dal and add it to the boiling liquid.
• When everything is mixed and well cooked, add sugar and stir well.
• Add 1/2 cup of ghee and keep stirring.
• When it is almost over add cardomoms.
• Roast cashews in 1 tsp ghee and add it to the mix.
• Add the remaining ghee and stir.
• It should become a non sticky paste but not too hard.
• At this stage remove the pan from the stove.
• Pour this mix on a large plate greaseed with ghee.
• Spred the cashew and cheery bits on the top surface of the halwa.
• Then cut this into diamonds by drawing parallellines with a knife.