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Festivals: Ganesh Chaturti: Recipes: Moong Dal Ka Halwa (Lentil Pudding)

MOONG DAL KA HALWA

Moong Dal Ka Halwa


Ingredients

1 1/2 cup Moong dal , Soaked
3/4 cup Mawa, Well crumpled
1 cup Sugar
1 1/2 litre Milk
1/2 tsp Saffron soaked in a little milk
5 Cardamoms powdered
6 tbsp Ghee

Method

  • Grind the moong dal coarsley.
  • Heat the ghee in a thick bottomed dekchi and fry the dal till golden.
  • Add milk and cook till the milk has been absorbrd.
  • Add mawa and cook on a low fire, stirring continously till the dal and the mawa are well blended.
  • Remove from the fire and keep aside.
  • Make sugar syrup of one thread consistencey, add saffron and cardomom powder to it.
  • Add the fried dal to the syrup and stir quickly till it mixes well.
  • If you want you can add thin silvers of blanched almonds.