Wheat Halwa

Wheat Halwa is delicious and liked by all. I have been waiting to try this recipe. I thought it was difficult to make halwa before i make it. But now it is very easy to make halwa. So lets make Wheat Halwa today.

Ingredients:

     Wheat - 1 cup
     Water  -   5 cups
     Sugar  -  2 cups
     Ghee    - 3/4 cup
     Cashew nuts - few
     Cardamom powder - a pinch

Method:

1. Wash and soak the wheat overnight (6 hrs).

2. Drain the water and grind it with 1/2 cup water smoothly.

3. Filter it with a strainer.

4. Keep the collected wheat milk aside for 6 hrs.

5. Take a heavy bottomed pan and add 4 tspn of sugar and heat it on medium flame. Make sure you stir all the time. The sugar will melt and changes to brown colour.
 

 6. Add 1 cup water carefully as it will splutter. Stir well so that the caramelized sugar gets dissolved.

7. Now add the remaining sugar and mix until it dissolve.

8. Now add the wheat milk and remaining water to the sugar syrup and stir well.

 9. Keep on stirring it. when it comes to a thick consistency add little by little ghee.

10. Stir it continously. Now add cashewnuts to it.

11. While stirring the halwa should not stick to the pan. This is the right time to switch off the flame.

12. The wheat halwa is ready to serve.

Aloo Bonda

Aloo Bonda is a famous south indian snack made with potatoes. Its a kids favorite snack. Now we will see how to make aloo bonda or potato bonda.

Ingredients:

Potato - 3
Onion - 1
Green Chilly - 2
Turmeric Pwdr - a pinch

To Temper:

Mustard - 3/4 tsp
Oil - 2 tsp
Urad dhal - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves - few

For batter:

Besan Flour - 1/2 cup
Rice Flour    - 1/4 cup
Chilli powder - 1 tspn
Baking Soda - a pinch

Salt - as needed
Oil for frying.

Method:

1. Pressure cook potatoes, peel the skin and mash it. 

2. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add finely chopped onions, green chillies and saute for a few minutes until onion turns transparent.

3. Add turmeric and add mashed potato, mix well and switch off the flame. 

4. After it cools a little, make even sized balls out of it and keep it ready.  

5. Mix besan, rice flour, chilli powder, salt and cooking soda.

6. Add water to make a thick batter. The batter should not be too thick nor too thin.

7. Heat oil in a kadai. To check if the oil is hot enough to fry the bondas, drop 1/2 tsp of batter into the oil, if it raises to the surface immediately, then the oil is ready to fry the bondas. Now reduce the flame to medium.

8.Dip the balls in the batter, so that it is well coated on all the sides.

9. Carefully drop the balls into the hot oil and fry the bondas until they turn light golden color. 

10. Remove from oil and drain on a  kitchen paper.

Serve hot with coconut chutney.