Ingredients

• 1 cup - green gram dal
• 2 cups - sugar
• 1 cup - ghee
• 1 cup - milk
• 1 tbsp - all-purpose flour, golden fried in ghee
• 10 - cashew nuts, golden fried in ghee
• 1 pinch - nutmeg

How to Make Ashoka Halva

• Pressure cook the dal in 1 cup milk and 1 cup water.
• Cool it. Mash the dal.
• In a tawa, put sugar with a little water.
• Cook till 2-thread consistency.
• Add the mashed dal and stir continuously.
• Add ghee while stirring.
• When it becomes like dough (i.e. it doesn't stick to the vessel), add the fried flour, fried cashew nuts and a pinch of nutmeg powder.
• Put on a greased plate and cut into pieces.