Atta Cashew Halwa Recipe

Preparation Time
Difficulty Moderately easy
Occasion Diwali
Recipe Type Sweets
Cuisine South Indian

Atta halwa is a very tasty, mouth-watery sweet. Very easy sweet to make quick.

Ingredients

Ingredient Quantity Calories Fat Cholestrol
Wheat Flour 1 cup 450 249.9
Sugar 1 cup 774
Ghee 0.75 cup 1550.64 168 43.68
Water 1 cup 0
Cardamom Powder 1 teaspoon 7.6 0.02
Red Food Colour 0.5 teaspoon 6.3
2788.54 417.92 43.68

Preparation Method

  1. 1 In a pan/kadai, heat the Ghee on medium flame.
  2. 2 Add the atta to the heated Ghee & stir continuously Till it turns golden brown Till the raw smell goes.(Just make sure it does not burn).
  3. 3 Keep all other ingredients ready as they have to be added quickly one after the other.
  4. 4 Alongside, in a vessel add the Sugar to the Water and the Cardamom Powder and heat it Till the Sugar dissolves in the Water, once done keep it aside.
  5. 5 As soon as the atta is brown and you get a nice aroma flowing through your kitchen, add the Sugar Water mixture to the atta and stir continuously.
  6. 6 Keep stirring Till it starts leaving the Ghee from the Corners, this takes some 15 mins.
  7. 7 The halwa is now ready to be served. Garinish with the nuts and serve hot.