Date Halwa
About This Project
Ingredients:
- Dates – 1 cup
- Sugar – 1 and 1/4 cup
- Milk – 1 cup
- Ghee – 1/4 cup
- Cashews – 10
- Cardamom/Elachi – 2 nos or 1/4 tsp
Method:
- Chop dates into small pieces roughly. Boil milk. Keep the dates soaked in the hot milk till the dates become soft. Allow it to cool.
- Drain and grind the dates, sugar, elachi(cardamom) with little milk which was used for soaking in a mixer till it becomes a fine paste. There should not be any lumps. Add milk little by little as and when required.
- Heat the pan. Add the entire ground mixture in the pan . Stir it continuously. Add ghee once the mixture starts thickening. Stir continuously.
4.At one stage, the mixture starts darkening and leavening the sides of the pan. Soon, the mixture will get its consistency. Switch off the stove.
- Fry 10 broken cashews in a tbsp of ghee till they become golden brown color. Spread the cashews over the halwa. When the dates halwa become set properly, cut them into pieces of desired size and shape.