Walnut Halwa

Walnut, is an edible seed. It contains Omega-3, which plays a role in brain and cardio benefits. Samolina, from wheat, is a good and fast energetic source. The recipe here is a sweet, and can be prepared as a snack time food.

Ingredients:

Walnut- 1/2 cup or 1 hand full.
Samolina - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Cardomom - 2 nos
Cashewnut - 5-6 nos
Raisins - 5-6 nos
Water - 3 cups
Food Color - a pinch (of your choice and optional)
Ghee - 2 tsp
Oil - 3 tsp

Procedure: 

• Grind walnuts in a mixer coarsely.
• Heat ghee in a wide heavy bottom pan and roast cashew nuts, raisins. Keep them aside.

• Put the ground walnut in the remaining ghee and let it cook for a min. Stir well.

• Add water into the pan. Let it start to boil. Add food color you would like. I used green, just to feel earthen color.

• Mix samolina and sugar. Pour little by little and mix while pouring into the pan.

• Now our halva would be done in 3-5 minutes. Keep stirring. 
• Once the samolina-walnut gets thicken, add some oil to it and continue stirring, to incorporate the oil into it.
• Add roasted cashews, raisins and cardomom.

• The halva is done when walnut and samolina, get mixed together and start to leave out the oil. Till then continue stirring. It will take another 2 min since incorporating the oil.

• Now halva is ready to serve hot.  An inverted Tree.

• Or transfer the halva in a baking pan or a glass container. Let it cool. Make Slices. It can be served as a sliced cubes or in any shape, our kids would like.

I'm so happy, that my picky eating kids finished their serving and wanted some more..

Vanilla-Walnut halwa

Vanilla Walnut halwa is a variation of rava kesari and walnut halwa, which is shown in my recipe posting. To follow, click here for the walnut halwa recipe. 

Just add an extra ingredient, a tsp of the vanilla extract while you add water to the walnut, as mentioned in the procedure.. This time I used a different food color.

Wow, the final dessert is mouth melting vanilla flavored walnut halwa. Just a tsp of vanila extract transforms the nutty kesari sweet into a western touch dessert..