Badam Halwa recipe, Indian Almond halwa recipe
 
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Almond halwa or badam halwa is a Indian dessert prepared with ground almonds, sugar and milk, a festive delight
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Recipe type: sweets
Cuisine: south indian
Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • 1 cup almonds
  • ¾ cup sugar (you can reduce by 2 tbsp)
  • fat pinch of saffron (optional)
  • ⅛ tsp. cardamom powder
  • ¾ cup milk (vegans can use water)+ 2tbsp(for saffron)
  • 4 tbsp ghee or 2 to 3 tbsp virgin coconut oil
  • few drops of rose water (optional)
Instructions
  1. For a detailed steps, check my post on how to blanch almonds and make the almond paste. Add the saffron in the warm milk and let it to bleed.
  2. Add the blanched almonds in the mixie jar and add milk. Grind it into a smooth paste. Keep a non stick pan in the stove and add the grinded paste and sugar, stir continuously.
  3. Now add in the elachi or cardamom powder and saffron milk,mix well.Constantly stir and cook. you will begin to see the halwa getting better color as it is cooking and blending well with sugar. It got a better color now after cooking for about 8 minutes.
  4. When it thickens, add little more ghee or oil and stir. Add ghee in intervals twice or thrice. You should not stop stirring to prevent burning.Switch off when it reaches the desired consistency.
  5. We prefer it a bit thick, If needed you can just add few tbsps milk to get the desired consistency.Almond halwa is ready.
  6. serve with added nuts.
Recipe by Prema's Culinary at https://premasculinary.com/2015/12/badam-halwa-recipe-almond-halwa.html