Godhumai Halwa / Wheat Halwa

Ingredients:
Wheat Berries-1cup
Sugar-2 1/2cups
Cardamom Powder-1tsp
Ghee-1 1/2cups
Hot water-1cup
Water-1cup
Cashew-1/4cup
Food colour-2-3pinches


Procedure:
1. Wash and soak the wheat berries overnight.
2. The next day, drain water and grind it in a mixer grinder using 2 cups of water.
3. Strain the milk through a metal sieve. 
4. Take the glutinous residue to the mixer again. Add 1 cup of water and grind it again.
5. Strain it again.
6. Repeat the grinding once again. Strain the third milk. Discard the glutinous part.
7. Cover and keep the milk aside for 2hours.
8. The thin liquid will float and the thicker milk will settle to the bottom.
9. Carefully remove the thin milk and discard.
10. Break the cashew into small pieces and fry it in a little ghee until golden. Keep it aside.
11. In a heavy bottomed pan, add sugar and water. Bring it to boil.
12. Let it come to single thread consistency.
13. Add the wheat milk and stir it continuous. Add the milk on low flame, because the milk tends to become thick fast. If you don’t stir properly the whole mixture will become lumpy.
14. Add food colour and mix well.
15. Add a cup of hot water and mix well. This is to slow the cooking process.
16. Once the water is evenly mixed, add the cashew and a ladle full of ghee.
17. Keep on stirring until the mixture absorbs all the ghee. Do it on medium flame to avoid burning.
18. Add ladle full of ghee at regular intervals. Be careful because after each addition of ghee the whole mixture splutters a lot.
19. When the mixture stops absorbing ghee, the perfect consistency is reached.(I added little more ghee than the given amount) It no more sticks to the pan and shapes into a ball.
20. Pour the mixture into a tray. You don’t have to grease it because the halwa itself contains ghee and it will not let the halwa stick.
21. Allow it to cool for 2 hours. 
22. When completely cool, invert the tray on a cutting board. Cut into small squares or diamonds.
23. Enjoy.


Photo Tutorial:

Soak the wheat berries overnight

Drain the water

Grind it

Strain it in a metal sieve

Repeat the process twice and discard the glutinous part

Keep the milk aside for 2hours

Remove the thin milk floating on top

Fry cashew in ghee till golden

Add sugar and water

Bring to single thread consistency

Add the wheat milk

Stir it until the mixture thickens

Add food colour

Add hot water to slow the cooking process

Add ghee at regular intervals

Add cashew

When the mixture leaves the pan and takes no more ghee, pour into a tray

When cool flip it on a cutting board

Cut into small cubes

Enjoy

A close look at the delicious Halwa