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Spoon Halwa | Indian Sweet recipes

Ingredients :

  1. Bombay rava - 1 cup
  2. Water - 2 cups
  3. Sugar 2 ½ cups (+enough water to immerse the sugar)
  4. Ghee - ½ cup
  5. Cardamom powder - ½ tsp
  6. Saffron - a pinch
  7. Chopped nuts - to garnish
  8. Roast rava dry on a low flame till pink.
  9. Cool & soak in 2 cups of water.


Method :

  • After an hour grind to a paste using that water & keep ready.
  • Heat sugar syrup on a low fire, stirring well.
  • Boil till it reaches 1 string.
  • Remove & add the rava paste with one hand, whisking fast simultaneously with the other hand
  • to prevent lump formation.
  • (If lumps are there, pass the handblender trough it to break them – but if you do the above step
  • correctly, there will not be a single lump!).
  • Put back on fire & cook adding ghee little by little at a time.
  • When it becomes a mass & leaves the sides of the vessel, add cardamom powder & saffron.

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