Halwai October 5, 2023

Ingredients:

• 1 cup – besan (gram flour)
• 1/4 cup – Maida (all-purpose flour)
• 3 cups – Sugar
• 3 cups – Vanaspati ghee/oil
• 1.5 cups – water for syrup

Method:

  1. Mix maida and besan.
  2. Mix sugar and water and make a light syrup (not thick).
  3. In one vessel, heat the ghee till it starts bubbling.
  4. Add the maida and besan mix in the syrup and keep stirring. Avoid formation of lumps.
  5. Keep mixing the ghee in 3 batches.
  6. Once cooked, there will be bubbles forming on the mixture.
  7. Remove from fire and pour this mixture on a tray and spread.
  8. Cut it into pieces when hot.

Recipe courtesy of Shanker