Ingredients

• Broken wheat - 1 cup
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Ghee - 1/4 cup
• Cardamom powder - 1 pinch
• Saffron - a few strands
• Almonds - 15

How to Make Godi halwa

• Cover the broken wheat with water and soak for two hours.
• Soak almonds in warm water, and remove the skin.
• Soak the saffron strands in a little warm water.
• Grind the soaked wheat with water, and filter through a mesh to extract the wheat milk.
• Grind it yet again with some more water and extract more milk.
• Repeat the process till all the wheat milk is extracted and discard the solids.
• Add water, if necessary to make 4 cups of wheat milk.
• Cook the wheat milk with sugar in a heavy-bottomed pan.
• Keep stirring to avoid lumps.
• Once it starts boiling, it will thicken very fast. So keep stirring.
• Add 1/2 of the ghee and keep cooking until the mixture turns into a thick custard.
• Add the soaked saffron and blend well.
• Add the remaining ghee and cardamom powder and remove from heat when the halwa leaves the sides of the pan.
• Pour into a greased plate and decorate with almonds.
• The halwa will set like a custard when it cools down and you can cut them as desired.
• Recipe and image courtesy: Chitra Amma's Kitchen
• http://chitra-ammas-kitchen.blogspot.com