Godhi Halbai
Halbai is a traditional Karnataka-style sweet recipe that is mainly prepared during the festive seasons or other celebrations. The halbai is generally prepared with just rice as the main ingredient. However, in this recipe, I have tried with broken wheat to give it a nice uniqueness.
Though making this traditional sweet requires only a few ingredients, but its considered a quiet tedious process. If the ingredients are not as per proportion / right consistency is not achieved they turn sticky. I don’t feel they are very tough to make but the only boring thing is you need to constantly keep on stirring them .It calls for your undivided attention.
As the mixture thickens, it gets harder to stir. But trust me the end result would be great . Don’t go by its appearance.. Halbai is not at all a colorful dish.. nor photogenic 🙂 … I’ve tried to add some color to the dish by making the background colorful.
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Now lets see how to cook:
Godhi Halbai
Author: Shalini
Recipe type: Sweet
Cuisine: Indian
- Broken wheat - 1 cup
- Coconut grated - 1 cup
- Jaggery syrup - 1 cup
- Cardamom - 2
- Cloves - 2
- Ghee - 4 spoons
- In a bowl add 1 cup of broken wheat, then add 2 cups of water and soak it for 1 hr.
- After 1 hr add this soaked wheat into mixer along with soaked water, add grated coconut, 2 cardamom and 2 cloves, then grind to smooth paste.
- Now in a pan(keep flame very low) add this paste and keep mixing it without any lumps . Keep mixing without removing your hands for minimum 5 min.
- Add jaggery syrup and mix again, then add pinch of salt to enhance the sweet taste to it.
- Keep mixing for 15 mins, dont move away since there are chances of getting burned, once the paste is been cooked , keep adding ghee in spoon by spoon as it will absorb more ghee, mean while keep mixing,.
- Stop mixing when the paste mixture turns into non-stitck lump. Here i have stopped when the mixture was little sticky.
- Grease the plate, then add this mixture and spread it, cut into desire shape while it is hot!!.
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