Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Sweet Potato Halva


Serving size: 3
Ingredients:

  • Sweet Potato - 3
  • Sago - 1/2 cups
  • Brown Sugar - 5 tbsp
  • Cardamon - 5
  • Cashew nuts - 10
  • Ghee - 3 tbsp
  • Water
Procedure:
  1. Cook sweet potato until tender. Save the excess water for later use.
  2. In a pan, add sago and 1/2 cup of water and cook until its well cooked.
  3. Let the sweet potato and sago cool down.
  4. Grind sweet potato and sago in mixy to make a very silky smooth paste. Add little water(remaining water from the cooked potatoes) if it is too dry.
  5. In a pan, add 2 tbsp of ghee. Saute cashews. Once it becomes light brown, take it from the pan and keep it aside.
  6. In the same pan with remaining ghee, add coarsely powdered cardamon and add the sweet potato & sago paste
  7. Add sugar and keep mixing it. Taste for sweetness. Add more sugar at any time, according to your taste.
  8. Keep mixing, until the mix gets thicken. if it sticks to the pan, add more ghee to it.
  9. Finally, add cashews. Pour it into the serving bowl and let it cool. 
  10. Keep it in refrigerator for 1 hour, once it cool down. 
NOTE: Milk can also be added in the process. It make the halva more rich.

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