Preparation Time : 1 hour + 15 minutes
Cooking Time : 15 – 20 minutes
Serving : 4 members
Description
Moong dal halwa . A recipe i tried out recently, which was liked by my hubby a lot. The only difficult part of this recipe is the continuous stirring (but it helps to burn calories and give you a slim long arm). It took me some time initially to differentiate the various dals from one another. My mother in law had different coloured boxes for the various dals, that helped me identity each one. when my daughter ANISHA started cooking. She kept complaining that her sambar was not like how i make it at home. In her sambar the dal were always seperate. I asked her to pressure cook the dal for another 2 more whistles and mash the dal before adding it to the sambar. She did so and called and informed me saying that didn’t help. I really didn’t know what was wrong. My Daughter shares her food at times with her neighbour sasi, like wise she sent over her sambar. Her neighbour called bake and asked her why have you used Bengal gram dal for sambar ? So that’s why her sambar was always not getting together. Well we make mistakes and learn from it isn’t it.
Ingredients
Ingredients | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Moong dal | 1 cup soaked in water for one hour and ground to a smooth paste |
| Milk | 5 tablespoons |
| Ghee | 1/2 cup |
| Saffron | a pinch |
| Sugar | 2 cups |
| Water | 1 cup |
| Cardamom powder | 1 teaspoon |
| Almonds , cashew nuts and pistachios | 1 teaspoon each chopped . ( I used almonds alone as I was out of stock with the other nuts ) |
Method
- Soak saffron in milk . Heat ghee in a non – stick kadai . Add moong dal paste and cook on medium heat , stirring through out continuously .
- Dissolve sugar in hot water and boil for 5 minutes in another vessel . Add sugar syrup little by little to the moong dal paste and mix well , stirring continuously , making sure no lumps are formed .
- Top with cardamom powder , soaked saffron and 3/4 of chopped nuts . Mix well .
- Garnish with remaining nuts and serve hot or at room temperature .
