Badam Halwa | Sweet Recipes
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Recipe type: Sweet
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 15 halwa bites
 
Rich and nutty, with a beautiful sunshine yellow colour, badam halwa
Ingredients
  • 75 Gm almonds
  • ¾ Cup 150 Gm sugar
  • ¾ Cup milk
  • 1 big pinch saffron/kesar
  • ¼ Cup warm milk
  • ¼ Cup ghee
Method
  1. Measure almonds and put into a bowl
  2. Soak in boiling water for 30 minutes
  3. The peels become loose after about 30 minutes
  4. Meanwhile add a big pinch of saffron/kesar into ¼ Cup warm milk and set aside
  5. Remove peels from almonds after water cools or turns lukewarm
  6. Add the skinned almonds into mixer jar
  7. Add about ¾ Cup milk and grind into a rough textured paste
  8. Take this into a heavy pan
  9. Add sugar and mix well
  10. Bubbles start appearing
  11. Once bubbles recede (after around 20 mins), add saffron milk and keep mixing till it thickens
  12. Next add 1 Tbsp ghee at a time
  13. Let ghee absorb, keep mixing till it thickens
  14. Again add a tbsp of ghee and keep mixing it well. Repeat till all ghee is added to the halwa
  15. Finally, turn off heat, keep mixing till it cools to warm
  16. Make halwa bites and pack in parchment paper. Enjoy!
Notes
Halwa can be made to the consistency you like, here I have made it to be packed inside parchment paper

Do not grind the almonds into a fine paste, a textured paste always gives a nice bite

It is not necessary to pack in parchment paper, but store in a cool dark place to retain saffron fragance and it keeps longer
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/badam-halwa/