MICROWAVE WHEAT HALWA
Preparing Godumai (Wheat) halwa on Deepavali is almost like a custom in many Iyengar households in SouthIndia.
Ingredients
Whole wheat
: 250 g
Sugar
: 625 g
Water
: 2 cup
Cardamom powder
: 1/2 tsp
Cashew nut
: 15 nos
Ghee
: 125 g
Red food color
Method
- Soak wheat for 12 hours.Grind in a mixie adding 1 cup water. Strain through a seive to get a thick milk.
- Grind again adding 1 more cup of water and strain again. You will be left out with only the husk in the seive.take a bowl add wheat milk,sugar ,cardamom powder and ghee.set microwave oven for 30 minutes.stir every two to three minutes.
- Heat a pan add ghee and add sliced cashew nut and roast it.After 10 minutes add these roasted cashew into the bowl.stir well again microwave it .stir every 2 min.after 10 mins add food color and stir well.place the bowl into microwave oven.
- Stir every 2 mins.after 10 mins halwa is ready.grease the plate.spread this halwa into the greased plate.After a minute slice it.