Badam Halwa

Makes -1 cup

For many,serving Badam Halwa for guests is a pride as it is costly.Badam Halwa in many small sweet shops is adulterated with peanut powder and cashew powder.Only few popular sweet shops provide original badam halwa. It is very easy to make badam halwa at home and the result never goes wrong.I tried this for deepavali for the first time and got it perfect. So try this and enjoy.

Ingredients:

• Badam -1/2 cup
• Sugar -1/2 cup
• Ghee -1/4 cup
• Saffron - Few strings
• Yellow food colour -Few drops
• Cardamom -1/2 tsp

Method:

• Soak badam in water for 4 hours,peel the skin and grind it with milk or water to a fine paste.
• In a heavy bottomed pan or non stick pan,add sugar and 1/2 cup of water and bring to boil.(I added cardamom at this stage itself).
• Add the badam paste and stir well to avoid lumps.Stir for 5 mins in medium flame.
• Now add food colour and saffron soaked in lukewarm milk.
• Add ghee in regular intervals and stir till halwa leaves the pan.
• After this you will see whitish bubbles on the pan when you stir,this is the right stage to turn off the stove.
• Convert it to a greased pan and let it cool down.

Notes:

• Store it in a container and refrigerate it.Consume within 4-5 days.
• Must grind badam to a very fine paste.
• If your halwa is sticky add more ghee.
• Halwa gets thickened when it cools down so don't worry if your halwa is quite loose in consistency.
• Adding ghee is very important to this halwa so be generous.