Wheat Halwa | Atta Halwa
Wheat flour halwa or atta halwa is a smooth sweet pudding made with whole wheat flour, ghee sugar and water.
- Prep time
- 5 min
- Cook time
- 10 min
- Yield
- 3 servings
- Difficulty
- EASY
Ingredients
- 1 cup atta ((whole wheat flour))
- 1/2 cup ghee ((clarified butter))
- 1 cup sugar (or as required)
- 2 cup water
- 1 tbsp whole cashews ((kaju) - optional)
Instructions
- 1
Heat the ghee in a heavy bottomed kadai or pan.
- 2
Add whole wheat flour to the hot ghee and start roasting it.
- 3
Meanwhile, take sugar and water in another pan.
- 4
Keep this pan on a medium to high flame and let the solution come to a boil.
- 5
Fry the atta stirring continuously till its color changes and you get the aroma of roasted whole wheat flour.
- 6
Keep on stirring the flour to ensure even browning.
- 7
In the meanwhile keep your eyes also on the sugar solution.
- 8
If the mixture starts to boil, then lower the flame and let it simmer.
- 9
The atta or whole wheat flour should turn golden and give a good fragrance. Plus also begins to release ghee.
- 10
Increase the flame to high for the sugar solution to bubble and when it starts to bubble in a matter of seconds, immediately add it to the hot atta mixture.
- 11
Be careful as the mixture has the tendency to splutter.
- 12
Continue to stir with all your hand force, so that no lumps are formed.
- 13
Atte ka halwa will absorb water and continue to thicken quickly.
- 14
Keep on stirring. So that lumps are not formed.
- 15
When wheat halwa is semi thick or thick like a sooji halwa, switch off the fire.
- 16
Serve atte ka halwa hot or warm.