Ingredients:
• 2 cups – tapioca (grated)
• 1 cup – Sugar or adjust to your taste
• 2 cups + 1/4 cup – water
• 1/4 cup – cashew
• Mixed Nuts (coarsely powdered)
• 1 tbsp – Milk powder
• 1 pinch -kesari powder
• 5 – Cardamom
• 3 -cloves
• 1/4 cup – Ghee
Method:
- Wash grated tapioca twice. Add 2 cups of water and cook.
- Now, in a pan add 2 tsp of ghee. Then add few broken cashews and cardamom. Fry well.
- Turn stove to medium. Add sugar and 1/4 cup water.
- Add the kesari powder. Mix well.
- When the sugar is totally dissolved, add the cooked tapioca.
- Stir well. Add 1 tsp of ghee, cloves and milk powder. Stir well, so that milk powder forms no lumps.
- Now, grind the remaining cashew coarsely and add it to the contents. Mix well.
- Stir continuously and add remaining ghee when the contents become thick and in halwa consistency.
- Switch off the stove.
- Serve hot/cold garnished with coarsely powdered nuts.
- Recipe courtesy: Nithu’s Kitchen