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Aate Ka Halwa (Wheat Flour Pudding)

Aate Ka Halwa
ruchi

September 26, 2010

Aate Ka Halwa is an Indian sweet that you will normally find in temples and gurudwaras as prasad. Here are some other halwa recipes, you may like:

Besan Ka Halwa recipe
Gajar Ka Halwa recipe
Moong Ki Dal Ka Halwa recipe
Sakarkand Ka Halwa recipe
Suji Ka Halwa recipe

Cooking time: 30 minutes
Servings: 8
Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients

Whole Wheat Flour 1 cup
Sugar 1 cup
Ghee (clarified butter) 1/3 cup
Chopped badam (almonds) 2 tbsp
Kishmish (raisins) 2 tbsp
Kharbuje Ke beej (shelled melon seeds) 2 tbsp
Choti elaichi (small cardamom) 1

Method

  1. Crush cardamom to a fine powder and keep aside.
  2. Chop almonds coarsely lengthwise and keep aside.

  3. If you are going to use melon seeds, roast them lightly till they puff up and keep aside. Don’t let them brown.
  4. Boil 3 1/2 cups of water and sugar together. Make sure that the sugar dissolves. Turn off the heat as soon as it starts to boil.
  5. Roast flour in ghee till it’s dark brown on medium heat. Keep stirring it constantly otherwise it will burn.

    6. Roast flour in ghee

    Flour is fully roasted

  6. Add water to the roasted flour slowly. Keep stirring.

    7. Add water to the wok

  7. Water will be quickly absorbed by the flour. Be careful, sometimes flour and water lumps pop up a little. Once it’s pretty thick, turn off the heat. Add cardamom powder.

    8. Water will be quickly absorbed by the flour

  8. Garnish with almonds and raisins and serve. Aate Ka Halwa is ready to serve.

    9. Aate Ka Halwa is ready to serve

Notes

  1. More ghee makes it more delicious. Add as much or as little as you like.
  2. Make sure to stir it vigorously while adding water otherwise some lumps may form.
  3. This is a very popular sweet used as Prasad in pooja.
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