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Atta Kei Halwa Recipe | Halwa Made From Plain Flour

Ingredients:

* Milk Syrup

2 cups milk

1/2 cup sugar 

1 cinnamon quill

5 cardamom pods

3 cloves 

* Other Ingredients

3/4 cup ghee

1 cup plain flour

1/4 cup almond flakes

1/4 sultanas

1 teaspoon cardamom powder

Methods:   

*Let's Prepare Milk Syrup 

1) In a pot, add milk and sugar and ensure to stir sugar until dissolved. Ensure to add cinnamom quill, cloves and cardamom pods. Bring the mixture to boil and simmer for 2 minutes. Set milk syrup aside.

*Let's Make Halwa

2) In a kadai, add ghee. Once ghee has heated add flour. Ensure to stir till the mixture turns light brown, and a rustling sound is heard.

3) Add cardamom powder, almond flakes and sultanas. 

4) Then, strain milk syrup into the mixture.

5) Ensure to continuously stir the mixture until it turns thick and set as halwa.

*Serve as prasadam or dessert. 

  

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