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Badami Halwa is made by grinding almonds into a fine paste and then cooking it with milk, sugar, ghee, saffron and cardamom. This rich and delicious halwa is easy to prepare and is healthy too.
Ingredients:
Almonds (Badam) – 1 cup
Boiled Milk – 750 ml
Sugar – 1 1/4 cup
Cardamom powder – 1/2 tsp
Ghee – 1/2 cup ( I am too ungenerous while using ghee. You can use another 1/2 cup if you want)
Saffron – 15 strands, soaked in 3 tbsps milk
Cashewnuts – 10
Almond Flakes – 2 tbsps
Method:
- Boil 1 1/2 cups of water.
- Soak almonds in this water for about 10 mins.
- De-skin the almonds.
- Blend these almonds with 1/4 cup of water into smooth paste.
- Take a heavy bottomed wok, add blended almond paste and milk. Mix well.
- Start boiling this on medium flame stirring frequently.
- When the milk reduces to half, add sugar, cardamom powder and saffron milk and continue to boil stirring continuously.
- Add half the quantity of ghee and stir until it forms a lump.
- Heat remaining ghee,add the cashewnuts and fry them slightly.
- Add this to the halwa and mix well.
- Transfer it into bowl.
- Garnish with almond flakes.
