Halwa made of Sooji/Suji is a very popular dessert all over India. It is also made on religious occasions, as prasad. After offering prayer Halwa is served to devotees as a blessing. Some version of this is made of milk and some without milk. Here is one without milk. It is very easy to prepare – please check out:-
Preparation Time: - 5 min
Cooking Time: - 20~25 min
Servings: - 4~5 person (vary according to the personal consumption capacity)
Ingredients:-
- 1 cup Sooji / Semolina flour / Rava
- ½ cup ghee (clarified butter)
- 1 cup sugar (If you are not a sugar lover as I am you may reduce the amount by little as per your taste)
- 3 cups of water
- Handful of Cashew nuts and green raisins – you can add sliced almonds and pistachio also if you want
- ½ tsp Cardamom powder
- 2 crushed whole green cardamom
Preparation:-
- Take the raisins and soak in the water. Keep aside.
- Take a heavy bottomed non-stick pan or kadai and heat the ghee.
- Roast few cashews in the ghee along with pinch of cardamom powder. Keep aside when cashew turns golden brown.
- Now add Sooji or Semolina flour to the hot ghee and start roasting it.
- In the meantime, pour sugar in water in a skillet. Add crushed cardamom to it.
- Heat the mixture turning your burner on a medium flame and let the solution start boiling. Then put the burner in low flame and let it simmer.
- Keep on sautéing & stirring the semolina for 7-8 times till it changes its color to golden brown and a light sweet aroma gets generated.
- Keep on stirring the flour to ensure even browning on all sides. Stirring needs to be continuous so that the sooji does not get stuck.
- Now put the burner of sugar solution to high so that it starts to form bubbles.
- Just then pour the sugar solution to the sooji mixture. Pour it slowly so that it does not splash and generate lot of steams. It may hurt your hand.
- Now start stirring viciously so that the mixture becomes smooth and no lumps are formed.
- The mixture will absorb water and will thicken. This will take 2~3 minutes.
- Continue stirring and when the mixture thickens to your liking add half of cashew nuts and raisin, stir again for few seconds and switch off the flame.
- Now garnish with the rest of cashew and raisins on top.
Your delicious Sooji ka halwa is ready to serve and eat it hot or warm. This is a dessert dish and you can eat alone or with Aloo Poori.
As always please feel free to comment, criticize and seek if any help is required. I am all ears.