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Special Category => சமையல் கலசம் => Topic started by: MysteRy on October 30, 2014, 09:33:47 PM
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Thirunelveli Halwa :
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Ingredients:
Wheat : 2 cups (approx 450gms)
Sugar: 7 cups
Water: 12 cups
Cardomom powder: 1/2 tsp
Ghee: 3 cups
Procedure:
Step1:
Soak the wheat is sufficient amount of water for 8 hrs.
Step2:
Grind the wheat with some water and extract the wheat milk
To get the milk, grind the wheat in mixie/blender for 5 minutes and filter out the milk.
Grind the wheat with fresh water again and filter.Repeat this atleast 3 times
Step3:
Allow the milk to ferment overnight.
Step4:
In the morning , you will find that the thick milk has settled at the bottom and the clear liquid on top.Discard the clear liquid. I got approximately 3.5 cups of milk
Note: If you are able to extract more milk, adjust the quantity of other ingredients accordingly.
Fermented milk.
After clearing the liquid on top.
Step5:
In a wide non stick pan, pour this milk and add 12 cups of water and mix well.
Mixed with water
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Step6:
Cook in a medium flame and keep stirring once 3 -5 minutes.After 1 hour, the mixture starts to thicken.
Step7:
At this point add sugar and keep on stirring.
Step8:
Once it reaches semi solid stage, add ghee little by little and keep on stirring.After another 1 hour or so, the ghee will start oozing out.The halwa will look transparent as well.When you take the mixture in the laddle, it should slide and not stick to the laddle.
The ghee will really start oozing out at the last stage. I recollected more than 1/4 cup of ghee once I was done with the Halwa.
Step9:
Add cardomom powder and fried cashews and switch off the flame
About to be done.Still sticky
Almost done.The halwa has to slide from the spoon.Should not stick
Adding color to Halwa
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1. Heat 3 tsp of ghee
2. Add 2 tsp of sugar and keep stirring until the sugar starts melting and starts caramelizing
3. At one point (within a minute or two), the ghee starts changing color to brown
4. Pour this to the Halwa mixture and you will get the required color naturally
Heat ghee and sugar
Add it to the halwa
This will become more darker once the halwa is done.
Tips:
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1. If you want to try this halwa for the first time, cut the recipe by half.Use only 1 cup of wheat.The yield is really huge.So 1 cup will be more than enough for a family.
2. Use a good quality non stick pan so that it will be easy to stir and also to clean.
3. I got only 3.5 cups of milk from 2 cups of wheat.If you extracted properly with good squeezing and grinding more than 3 times, you may get even more.In that case increase the other ingredients accordingly.
4. Do not add any artificial colors.You may not get the color naturally when you are making with less quantity.However use the above tip to bring the color.