Monday, July 11, 2011

Corn flour halwa

A delicious halwa that can be made in less than 30 minutes 


Ingredients
Corn flour: 1/2 cup
Sugar: 1 cup
Water:1.5 cups
Ghee: 3 tablespoons
Cardomom powder:1/4 tsp
Cashew nuts: 2 tablespoon
Kesar color: a pinch

Procedure:
Step 1:
Slightly fry the corn flour for 2 minutes

Step2:
Mix water , sugar and corn flour together without forming lumps in a wide pan

Step3:
Add the kesar color as well

Step4:
Heat the pan and stir the mixture continuously in low-medium flame 


Step5:
After 10 min the mixture will start thickening and will have jelly like consistency


Step6:
Add ghee little by little and stir for another 10 minutes until mixture comes off the sides of the pan and also becomes transparent and shiny

Step7:
Pour in a greased tray and allow it cool and then cut it to desired shape.



Click here for microwave version of the halwa

27 comments:

  1. Really Halwa with Corn flour?New recipe dear!!It's luks like Wheat Halwa :)

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  2. Delicious and that's a nice colour ....yum

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  3. delicious looking halwa looks wonderful

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  4. Perfect and tempting halwa.. looks simply superb.. thanks for sharing dear :)
    Indian Cuisine

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  5. I too make this..but without color..looks delicious..:)

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  6. Halwa looks yummy and delicious........... Nice colour..

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  7. Glassy halwa looks very tempting. Remember seeing this at Priya's.

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  8. Tasty yummy halwa.Looks delicious...

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  9. WOW- I remember bookmarking this from her; it looks yum

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  10. Looks so beautiful and colorful...

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  11. Perfectly done it dear,i saw the step vis clicks,the halwa doesn't stick on the tawa and no lumbs also...so nice,gud job dear.

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  12. tht looks amazing..wht a lovely colour !

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  13. Wow Love the wonderful color rich and yummy looking! yummy post, Shailaja :)

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  14. Vow, colorful mouth watering halwa, it's a clever idea. Bookmarked this.

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  15. Vow, colorful, soft, delicious halwa, dat's a clever idea. Bookmarked this.

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  16. Woww.. The halwa looks so yum.. I have never tried this recipe. :D I will surely.. You have a lot of awesome halwa recipe :D

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  17. Once I tried this and had a bitter experience! ;) halwa was a total disaster,after that never tried it. Yours looks delicious! :P

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  18. I ALSO POST THIS HALWA BUT URS IS MORE ATTRACTIVE AND INVITING
    LOKING FOR UR COMMENTS

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  19. never tried halwa with corn flour..looks delicious..

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  20. Soft and delicious halwa,looks so inviting.

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  21. New recipe for me... Looks delicious tho...

    I recently posted a recipe for Mini Mango Cheesecake . Please have a look at it when you have time.

    -Lavanya.
    http://recipecongeries.blogspot.com

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