Godumai halwa

 

Ingredients:

     Wheat flour   1 cup
     Water     5-6 cups
     Sugar    2 cups
     Ghee    3/4 cup
     Cashew nuts  few
     Cardamom powder  a pinch
     Orange food colour   a pinch

Method:

    In a wide bowl, add the wheat flour and make it into a dough as we make for chapathi. Do not add salt or oil.
    Add 5 cups of water to this and soak this in water for 3 hours.

    After 3 hours mix this nicely with hands and strain the liquid.
    Add one more cup of water and extract some more milk from the wheat dough.
    Discard the residue.

    In a heavy bottomed pan, add 1 tsp of ghee and roast the cashew nuts till golden brown. Keep this aside.
    Add the extracted water (around 5 cups it came) to the pan and slowly start stirring it. Keep the flame low, high flame will spoil the halwa and will not get cooked.
    I first put in the normal pan which i use  but since it was overflowing i transferred it to a big non stick pan.
    After 10 minutes the mixture will be like a porridge and start thickening.

    Add the sugar now and mix the orange color with 1 tsp of water. Add this orange colour to the halwa. Stir well.

    Add 2 tblsp of ghee and stir well in a low flame. From now on wards only stirring is the job. Just add the ghee(melted ghee) and add in between. Slowly the halwa will get a glossy texture.

    Add the cashew nuts and the elachi powder. Stir nicely. The halwa will start coming like a jelly ball without sticking to the bottom.
    Switch off the gas and if you want you can pour this in a greased plate and cut them into pieces.
    I want to have this like halwa in a bowl. So didn’t spread in a plate.

Notes:

    Only stirring part takes extra time else not much complications in the recipe.
    The entire process should be done on a lower flame as keeping on a high flame will spoil the halwa.
    Make sure not to get any lumps in the first 10 minutes. So stir continuously in a low flame.
    This stay well in room temperature for 2 days and stay well in the refrigerator for a week.
    When you want to reheat , just heat water in a vessel and boil it nicely. Switch it off and keep the halwa in a steel bowl and place it inside the hot water.
    It will taste awesome when it is hot.