{"id":5226,"date":"2017-07-13T11:25:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T11:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chefreetuudaykugaji.com\/blog\/?p=5226"},"modified":"2020-07-14T11:49:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T11:49:21","slug":"besan-ka-halwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chefreetuudaykugaji.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/13\/besan-ka-halwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Besan Ka Halwa"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rich and delectable halwa from North India, prepared with Bengal Gram Flour, Clarified Butter, flavored with green cardamom powder garnished with Pistachio nuts, almonds and edible dried rose petals…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Preparation Time:<\/strong> 5 minutes<\/p>\n

Cooking Time<\/strong>: 25 minutes<\/p>\n

Serves:<\/strong> 04<\/p>\n

Ingredients and Quantity: 01 Cup=250 ml.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Besan (Bengal Gram Flour,Chickpeas Flour)-01 cup<\/p>\n

Clarified Butter (Ghee)-3\/4th<\/sup> cup<\/p>\n

Sugar-3\/4th<\/sup> cup\/ as required<\/p>\n

Water- 3\/4th<\/sup> \u00a0cup<\/p>\n

Milk-3\/4th<\/sup> \u00a0cup<\/p>\n

Green Cardamom Powder-1\/4th<\/sup> tsp<\/p>\n

Saffron- \u00bc th gm. (Optional)<\/p>\n

Pistachio nuts, slivered-10 gm.<\/p>\n

Almonds, slivered-10 gm.<\/p>\n

For the Garnish:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rose petals, dried- 01 tsp<\/p>\n

Pistachio nuts, slivered-05 gm.<\/p>\n

Almonds, slivered-05 gm.<\/p>\n

Method:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Add clarified butter in a heavy bottomed pan, add Bengal Gram flour and cook it on low flame till the\u00a0raw aroma disappears and it gets a slightly reddish brown color.<\/li>\n
  2. Keep stirring it in order to prevent it from burning, also so that it cooks evenly.<\/li>\n
  3. In another sauce pan add sugar, water, milk, saffron (Optional), and cardamom powder.Let it boil for 5 minutes. Add it to the cooked Bengal gram flour mixture and mix it well.<\/li>\n
  4. Add slivered nuts<\/li>\n
  5. Mix well, stir it continuously till the mixture becomes thick in consistency and the clarified butter oozes out from the corners of the mixture. Remove from the flame.<\/li>\n
  6. Serve hot garnished with slivered nuts and dried rose petals<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Chef Tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    You can store the halwa in the refrigerator for a week. Reheat whenever required,<\/p>\n

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    A rich and delectable halwa from North India,<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,84,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-cuisine","category-indian-sweet","category-vegetarian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chefreetuudaykugaji.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/H0-minCC.jpg?fit=3456%2C5184&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9arbY-1mi","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chefreetuudaykugaji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chefreetuudaykugaji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chefreetuudaykugaji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefreetuudaykugaji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefreetuudaykugaji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5226"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/chefreetuudaykugaji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10407,"href":"https:\/\/chefreetuudaykugaji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions\/10407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefreetuudaykugaji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chefreetuudaykugaji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefreetuudaykugaji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefreetuudaykugaji.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}