MAIDA HALWA

Ingredients:

• Maida:  1 cup Sugar:  1 ½ Cups
• Ghee: 1 Cup
• Water: 1 ½  Cups
• Roasted cashews: 1/4 Cup
• Raisins: 1/4 Cup
• Cardamom powder:1tpl spoon
• Food color: 1 pinch red

Method:

• Mix maida and water in a bowl evenly.
• Fry the cashews and raisins in a pan and keep aside.
• Add one tablespoon ghee in a frying pan and add the maida mixture.
• Stir on a low flame avoiding lumps.
• When the mixture becomes smooth, add sugar and food color.
• On high flame, add more ghee, cardamom and the fried cashews and raisins.
• Remove from heat at the right consistency and add to a ghee-greased tray.  
• Then ready to eat cool. 

BANANA HALWA

Ingredients: 

• Bananas - 2 cups
• Milk - 3/4 cup
• Sugar - 1 1/2 cup
• Coconut(grated) - 1 cup
• Ghee - 1/2 cup

Method: 

 

• Peel off and mash the bananas.
• Heat ghee in a heavy pan.
• Add bananas and cook over low heat, stirring it continuously to prevent the mixture from sticking.
• Cook until the bananas are brown in colour. Add more ghee if required.
• Add sugar after a few minutes and continue stirring until dissolved.
• Add cardamom powder and remove from heat.
• Keep stirring till the mixture becomes thick.
• Spread the mixture on a flat plate and decorate it with ghee roasted cashewnut.
• Allow it to cool and cut into squares.
• Then ready to eat.

BABYCORN HALWA

 

Ingredients:

• Baby Corn cubes – 2 cups
• Milk – 2 Cups
• Khova – 1/2gms
• Sugar – 2gms
• Ghee – 50gms
• Cashew nuts – 8
• Kismis – 2tbsp
• Elaichi Powder – 1/2 tsp

Method:

• Boil the sweet corn cubes and grind them.
• Take a 1 inch pan, and heat it.
• Now add the corn paste to it.
• Add milk to it.
• Stir the mixture well until it gets thick.
• Now add ghee to it and stir well.
• Next add khova and sugar to it and stir well again for about  5 minutes.
• Next garnish it with elaichi powder, cashew nuts and kismis to it. 
• Then serve hot & cool.

POTATO HALWA

                                                    

Ingredients:

• Potato    -   3 (big size)
• Sugar      -   1 cup
• Cardamom -  2   
• Cashewnuts- 8  
• Ghee    - 50 gm 

Method:

• Heat ghee in a frying pan.
• Powder cardamom.
• Add cashewnuts, fry and set aside.
• Cook potato, peel the skin and mash.
• Mix sugar with water and prepare syrup of one string consistency. 
• Add mashed potato,  cardamom powder, cashew, ghee and sir well.
• When the ghee separates from the contents, remove from the stove.
• then searve hot.

DRYFRUITE HALWA

Ingredients: 

• Raisins – 1 cip
• Walnuts – 1 cup
• Badam – 1 cup
• Cashews – 1 cup
• Dates-1cup
• Sugar – 2 cups
• Bread crumbs – 2 cups
• Ghee – 1 cup
• Elatchi – 3
• Water - 1littr

Method:

• Roast the bread crumbs in ghee and keep aside.
• Wash, peel and cut the dry fruits and nuts as required.
• Walnuts will need extra soaking to be peeled.
• Add everything to 3 cups of water and boil over medium flame making semi-thick paste.
• Add the fried crumbs to make it thick and then the sugar to make it completely dry.
• Mix in more ghee and elatchi, cook till ghee separates.
• Then ready to eat.

SWEETPOTATO HALWA

Ingrediens:

• Sweet potato ( cooked ) - 1 cup
• Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Ghee - 1 1/2 cups
• Milk - 1 cup
• Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
• Cashewnuts - 10

Method:

• Heat a little ghee in a frying pan..
•  Add cashewnuts, fry and set aside.
•  Mash sweet potato with milk and cook in a thick bottomed pan.
•  When contents start boiling, add ghee and stir well.
•  When contents thicken, add sugar and stir.
•  When contents start leaving the sides of the vessel, add cardamom, cashew, mix well and remove pan from stove
• Then searve hot.

MANGO HALWA

Ingredients:

• Ripe Mango - 2  chopped
• Ghee - 1 tblsp
• Sugar - 1 cup 

Method:

•  Heat it in a heavy Pan stirring constantly till moisture is evaporated completely and halwa becomes thick.
•  Mix sugar and chopped mango pieces together.
•   Add ghee at the end and remove from fire.
• Then ready to Serve.