Tricolor Halwa to Serve This Independence Day

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Halwa is any of various dense, sweet confections with roots in the Oriental-Arabic areas, precisely Iran, Egypt, the Middle East, Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan.

And this Tricolor Halwa is made with 3 different hawlas. Check it out

Tricolor Halwa

Gajar Ka Halwa

Prep in: 15 minutes

Cooks in: 20 minutes

Total in: 35 minutes

Makes: 4 servings

Ingredients

• 500 grams Carrots (Gajjar), washed and peeled (preferably red)
• 1/4 cup Ghee
• 400 ml Milk
• 150 grams Khoya (Mawa), grated
• 200 grams Sugar
• 1 teaspoon Cardamom (Elaichi) Powder
• 2 tablespoons Ghee
• 1/4 cup Mixed dry fruits, sliced (almonds cashew nuts pistachios)

How to make Gajar Ka Halwa

• To begin making the Gajar Halwa with Khoya, grate the washed and peeled carrots.
• Heat a pressure cooker on medium flame, add ghee and grated carrots and saute for a couple of minutes. Sprinkle a little water and close the pressure cooker.
• Pressure cook the carrots for 1 whistle and turn off the flame. Allow the pressure to release naturally.
• In the meanwhile, heat a kadai on medium flame, add milk and allow it to come to a rolling boil, turn down the heat and let the milk reduce to 3/4th its quantity.
• Once the milk has reduced and thickened, add the grated khoya, elaichi powder, and sugar.
• Allow the khoya and sugar to melt and the whole milk mixture to come together. Now reduce the flame and transfer the cooked carrots into the milk.
• Continuously stir the milk and carrot mix, until you get a thick gajar halwa.
• Adjust sugar and elaichi according to your taste and add two more tablespoons of ghee and give the gajar halwa one final stir.
• Garnish the Gajar Halwa with dry fruits.

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Microwave Oats Milk Halwa

Prep in: 8 minutes

Cooks in: 5minutes

Total in: 12 minutes

Makes: 4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 cup Oats
• 2 cups Water
• 1/3 cup Sugar
• ½ tbsp Cardamom
• 5 tbsp Pistachios
• 2 tsp Ghee

How to make Microwave Oats Milk Halwa

• Let’s prepare the oats milk by adding oats and water in a mixer.
• Blend well until there are not pieces of oats are left and they become a smooth texture.
• Take thin muslin cloth or thin cotton cloth and pour the mix.
• Squeeze well and get the liquid in a bowl. You must not have more than 2 or 3 tsp of oats in the cloth. 1.5 cups of oats milk is ready.
• For the halwa preparation, Take a microwave-safe bowl and brush it with ghee
• Add ghee and the Pistachios. Mix well and microwave for 1 minute.
• Take out and add oats milk, sugar, cardamom and mix well.
• Microwave high for 4 minutes in total. Take out in between after every 2 minutes and stir well. Check if the sugar levels are fine for your taste buds at the end of 2 minutes and adjust accordingly.
• Take out and add a tsp of ghee on top to get a better flavor.
• Oats Milk Halwa is ready.

Tip:

• Time depends on the quantity and size of the container. It is good to use a thick glass microwave safe bowl for this recipe as we are frying the nuts in it directly.

Hare Chane Ka Halwa

Prep in: 5 minutes

Cooks in: 45 minutes

Total in: 50 minutes

Makes: 4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 cup Fresh green chickpeas, pureed
• 1 cup Sugar
• 1/4 cup Ghee
• 2 Cardamom (Elaichi) Pods/Seeds, finely powdered
• For garnish
• 1 teaspoon Ghee
• 6 Pistachios, chopped
• 10 Raisins

How to make Hare Chane Ka Halwa

• To begin making the Rajasthani Hare Chane Ka Halwa recipe, heat a heavy bottom kadai/pan with ghee.
• Add the ground choliya mixture and keep stirring over low flame for 7-8 minutes or till the time they are cooked.
• Now add sugar and cardamom powder and continue to keep stirring till the time all the extra moisture is absorbed and the halwa becomes non-sticky and forms a single lump.
• Switch off. Heat ghee in a small pan and add the dry fruits for garnish and fry till fragrant and pour it over the halwa and mix well.
• Delicious Rajasthani Choliya Halwa is ready to be served.