Recipe- Easy To Make Traditional Indian Dessert Sooji Ka Halwa

Sooji Ka Halwa is the traditional Indian desert made with semolina and sugar syrup with the fragrance of saffron and cashew. This Halwa recipe is a perfect dessert for festivals, special occasions.

Ingredients

1 Cup sooji semolina
¼ Cup Ghee clarified butter
⅓ Cup Sugar
2.5 Cup Water
4-5 Green Cardamom
1 tablespoon Almonds
1 tablespoon Pistachio
10 Kesar saffron threads

Method

To Make Sugar Syrup

- Heat a pan and add 2.5 cups of water in it. After that add ½ sugar in the pan and allow it to boil.

- In midst of the boiling water add a pinch of kesar and 3-4 cardamom in it. (You can add crushed cardamom as well.)When the mixture starts to boil then lower the flame and let the sugar syrup simmer.

- After 5 minutes switch off the heat. You can simultaneously boil sugar syrup as well as fry sooji if you like to save time.

Frying Sooji

- Heat ¼ cup of ghee in the pan. When the ghee is melted and becomes hot then add a half cup of semolina or suji or ravain it.

- Keep on continuously roasting the suji so that the sooji does not stick to the pan and is cooked evenly.

- It is really important to saute and continuously stir the semolina on low flame for 7-8 mins until the grain starts to change the color to golden brown.

- Switch off the heat once.

Making Sooji ka Halwa

- When the semolina is perfectly roasted then add the aromatic hot sugar syrup in it.

- Since the recipe splutters turn off the heat and then add sugar syrup in the suji to avoid burns.

- When you have poured the liquid syrup in it then turn on the heat and quickly stir the suji. The suji will absorb all the sugar syrup and will thicken in consistency.

- Cook the halwa for another 4-5 minutes until the ghee starts to leave the pan. When it is cooked then turn off the heat

- Sprinkle some almonds, pistachio and saffron on the halwa and serve hot.