Corn Flour Halwa/Karachi Halwa

This is also known as Karachi Halwa. It is a delicious dish and very easy to prepare. We loved this yummy corn flour halwa. It looks so good and attractive. You can use any food color of your choice. If you want you can thicken the consistency of halwa and cut into pieces. 

Ingredients

Corn Flour – 2 cups

Sugar – 3 ½ cups

Ghee – 1/5 cup

Mixed Nuts & Raisins – ¼ cup

Cardamom Powder – ½ tsp

Food Color – a pinch

Salt – a pinch

Water as required

Method

In a bowl, add corn flour and water with a pinch of salt and whisk it well to avoid lumps. Now add food color and mix. Then keep it aside.

In a pan, take sugar and 1 cup of water. Allow it to boil and wait till the sugar completely dissolves and become slightly thick.

Then add the corn flour mixture, keep stirring in low flame. Stir continuously.

After that it will start to thicken and keep on stirring until you see the halwa texture.

Now add ghee and cardamom powder.  Then mix well.

In a pan, melt ghee and add mixed nuts and raisins, then saute it for few min.

Add these fried cashew nuts into corn flour halwa. Take a ghee greased plate.

Now transfer the mixture to a ghee greased plate. Let it be for more than an hour.

Serve chilled or warm and enjoy.