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Buter Daaler Halwa

Ingredients

  • 2 cups daal lentils soaked
  • 4 cups sugar make syrup
  • 1 ½ -2 cups ghee mot butter
  • Cinnamon
  • Cardamom
  • Saffron soaked in warm water
  • Almonds and pistachios soaked in water
  • 2 cups milk

Instructions

  • Boil soaked lentils in milk. Blend the mixture once boiled and cooled. Add ghee to the blended mixture and blend once more.
  • Heat some ghee with cardamom and cinnamon and add blended mixture to work. Do not add the sugar syrup yet.
  • Keep frying until your arms come off and mixture is nearly golden brown.
  • Add syrup little by little and keep tasting until the desired sweetness is achieved.
  • Continue frying till ghee separates from mixture.
  • For color, sprinkle some granulated sugar and keep frying till the color makes you smile and reminds you of me.
  • Now set aside and turn off heat. Let cool slightly, then add half the saffron mixture and half the chopped almonds and pistachios.
  • Brush serving dish with ghee. Pour halwa in dish.
  • Pat it down with a fork.
  • Garnish with remaining almonds, pistachio and saffron.
Author: Sonia Imran