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Tamil Home Recipes: sweet
It is also called Wheat Halwa / Wheat Flour Halva, Atta ki hulva, a very tasty and delicious sweet dish. It is an easy to prepare dessert. It can be had at any time. Wheat flour is called Godhumai mavu / Gothumai maavu / Godumai mavu in Tamil language. It is also called Atta in Hindi.
Wheat flour: 1 cup Sugar: ¾ cup Ghee: 3 tbsp Cardamom powder (yelakkai podi): 1 tsp Roasted Almond or peanut / ground nut: 20 Fried Raisins (Poriththa kismis): 20
Saffron / Kesari powder / food color: A pinch (optional) Method of preparation: Heat ghee. Add the wheat flour. Roast till pleasant aroma with a change in color. Add 3 cups of boiling water. Stir well avoiding formation of lumps. Add cardamom powder, color and sugar. Continue stirring to get thick halwa. Some more ghee may be added according to your choice. Garnish with roasted nuts and fried raisins.
Sesame seed sweet ball (Winter laddu). It is a suitable dessert that warms up our body during winter season. Narimedu (Madurai special) White Sesame seeds : 1 cup Jaggery (gud) : 1 cup Grated dry coconut : 1/2 cup (Optional) Peanuts (groundnuts) : 1/2 cup Cardamom Powder : 1 tsp Ghee : 1 tbsp Procedure:
Roast the sesame seeds till golden brown. Roast the grated coconut. Roast the groundnuts and coarsely powder them. Melt jaggery in a heavy bottomed pan, add 1 tbsp of ghee and stir. On boiling, add all other ingredients and stir. Remove from flame. Grease your hands with a little ghee and make laddoos when the mixture is of bearable warmth. You can heat again a little, if mixture becomes cold. Laddus can be stored for 10 to15 days in an air-tight container.
Take a pressure cooker. Add 2 cups of washed raw rice, ½ cup of slightly roasted split green gram and 4 cups of water. Pressure cook till the contents become soft. Remove the lid. Add ½ cup of ghee, 5 cups of grated jaggery and 100 ml of milk. Stir and cook under low flame so as to get the contents thick. Add a tsp of cardamom powder, 10 each of fried cashew nuts and fried raisins. Mix well and serve hot or cold. Glossary:
Boil 100 gms of broken wheat with 100 ml of milk, a tablespoonful of coconut turnings (Tenkai thuruval) and a little water, till the broken wheat becomes soft. Add 50 gms of jaggery (vellam) and a pinch of cardamom powder. Boil further for 5 minutes. Serve for 5.
