Deepavali Wheat Halwa

Diwali Sweet

 Godhumai Halwa / Godumai Hulva

Ingredients:

• Wheat: 1 cup
• Sugar: 2 cups
• Cardamom: 4 (Make this into powder)
• Ghee: 4 tablespoons
• Saffron as a colour: 1 pinch
• A mixture of dry fruits: 1/2 cup

Method of preparation:

• Wash and soak wheat for about ten hours.

• Add a cup of water and grind.

• Strain with the help of a sieve and obtain wheat milk.

• Grind the residue again with a cup of water and strain.

• You will get thin wheat milk now.

• Pour both the thick and thin milk into a thick, round bottomed pan (wok) called iruppuchchatti in Tamil or kadai in Hindi.  

• Add sugar and cook on a low flame with constant stirring.

• The halwa (Halva / hulva / hulwa) will form now.

• Add ghee when halwa appears to be thick.

• Mix cardamom powder and saffron.

• Keep cooking.

• Take a small amount and test weather you can make a small ball with your fingers.

• If yes, stop cooking.

• Chop the dry fruits such as cashew nut, almond (badam), pista, akroot, etc, and fry in ghee.

• Mix these dry fruits with hulwa.

• Spread on a greased plate.

• Let it cool.

• Cut into pieces.