ASOKA HALWA

 

 

 

 

Asoka is a mouth melting sweet usually done for marriages. It consumes little extra ghee than usual for its softness. It is worth to try once in a while as it needs little patience for stirring halwa. But I bet it will surely a big hit if done for occasions or party. Just it needs little arm exercise otherwise it will get burnt .The main ingredient of this is moondhal.

 

Now lets see the method of making halwa.

 

STAGE 1  PREPARING  MOONGDHAL:

 

Moong dhal    (pasi paruuppu )  1/2 cup.

 

1. Take 1/2 cup of moondhal.Dry fry until it gets warm.
2. Soak the fried dhal for 1/2 an hour.
3. Pour only little water (1/2 cup) for boiling in pressure cooker.
4. Pressure cook for 2 whistles and simmer it for 5 mins and switch it off.
5. Let the cooker cools down.Open the lid after 15mins or so.
6. Now mash the cooked dhal with potato masher or give a run in the mixie.

 

Frying the dhal makes it more flavorful. Soaking it will hep to get boiled soon.Adding little water for cooking makes the dhal to be non mashy and the texture will be soft gainy.

 

STAGE 2 :



 

Wheat flour - 1/2 cup

Sugar- 1 cup

Mixed nuts/almond/cashew - 2 tbsp.

cardomon - 3 nos.

 

Dry fry the wheat flour until the raw smell goes off.

 

 

 

Take 1 cup of sugar in  a pan and add 1/2 cup of water to it and let it melt.

 

                                                                                        until you get one sting consistency.

 STAGE 3

 After getting one sting consistency add fried wheat flour and let it cook in the hot sugar syrup.Stir continuously without forming lumps. Now add little ghee to the whet flour.It will give a nice flavour.

After this step add the gound moong dhal.

 

 

 

Add some more ghee and fry until the ghee oozes out.

 

 

 STAGE 4:

 

Adding nuts. In another  pan add the remaining ghee and when its heated up add the nuts.

 

 

 

Now transfer to the moong wheat halwa.

 

 

 

Now Asoka halwa is ready to serve or eat.Enjoy

This Asoka halwa is without adding any colour.