- Cuisine: Indian
- Course: Dessert/Sweet
- Prep time: 15mins
- Cook time: 45mins
- Serves: 4 Persons.
Ingredients:
- Moon dal – 1/2 cup
- Water – 2 cup
- Wheat flour – 2 tbsp
- Sugar – 1 cup
- Ghee – 1/4th cup + 3 tsp.
- Cardamom – a pinch cashew and raisins – 1/2 cup
- Orange Color – a pinch
- In a pressure cooker add 1 tsp of ghee and rinsed moong dal.
- Roast it until aroma arises. Add 2 cups of water and stir well.
- Pressure cook for 4 whistles.
- Open the cooker and mash well.
- Once cool down grind it to a smooth paste in a blender.
- In a pan add 1/4th cup and add wheat flour and mix well.
- Roast until aroma arises. Add the moong dal paste and combine well.
- Keep stirring in low flame until the paste forms a shiny layer.
- Add sugar and stir until it dissolves. Mix well and keep stirring in low flame.
- Keep cooking until the halwa thickens.
- Add a pinch of orange color if you need. Mix well.
- Keep stirring for 30mins until the halwa separates from pan.
- In a pan add 1tsp ghee and roast cashews and raisins golden brown.
- Add them to halwa and 1 tsp of ghee and mix well.
- Serve hot.
- Notes: You can skip food color if you want natural color.
- Only when dal is mashed well, it stays smooth when cooked.
- Wheat flour can be replaced by Maida(all purpose flour)
- Be generous in adding ghee. The texture would be really good.
- Once you cool down the ghee will get frosted. So heat a little when u serve.
