Ashoka Halwa

I’m starting my new blog with one of my favourite dish ashoka. The taste is simply superb! It’s a very famous dish, served as all south Indian weddings. From my childhood, in case if I get any chance to go for any function, I enjoyed to have this dish. I and my sister is very big fan of this dish. My mom used to prepare for us.

 If we ask & feel something to eat; my mom used to prepare this yummy dish. They gave me this recipe and finally I prepared. Moong dal & wheat flour are the main ingredients for this recipe. Even you can use maida flour. But wheat flour gives very rich taste.

So I hope you do try this tasty ashoka halwa and sure you will fall in love.

Ingredients

Split Moong Dal (Paasi Paruppu) – ½ cup

Wheat Flour – ½ cup

Sugar – 1 ½ cups

Milk – 4 cup

Salt – a pinch

Ghee – ½ cup

Cardamom – 4

Dry Nuts – ¼ cup

Food Colour – ¼ tsp

Method

In a blender, add sugar and cardamom and grind it as powdered sugar. In a pan, add ghee and fry the dry nuts.

Take a pressure cooker, heat 1 tsp of ghee. Add the moong dal to fry it.

Fry the moong dal till it turns light red in colour. If you fry the moong dal, it will take less time to cook and also you can feel the good aroma.
 
Now add a pinch of salt, and milk then allow for 5 whistles in a pressure cooker.

Once it has done, smash it well. In case if you can’t do it properly in the previous step, then get it smashed to a thick paste using the blender or mixer and keep it aside.

In a pan, heat 1 tsp of ghee. Then add wheat flour, fry till the raw smell goes well.

Then add this wheat flour, moong dal paste, food colour, and powdered sugar in a blender, and grind it. (Without lumps you can make ashoka by using this method)

Finally in a pan, add the remaining ghee, and transfer this mix. Stir well till it should become non sticky paste. Then add the dry nuts. Mix it well. Then switch off the flame.

Enjoy with this dish J