India Food Network India

Recipes,Indian sweets,Desserts

  1. Recipes
  2. Indian sweets

Breakfast Lunch Snacks Dinner Desserts Festive Drinks

Almond Halwa Recipe
Jul 31, 2018

Follow on

PREPARATION TIME

COOKING TIME

SERVES

2-3

PREPARATION LEVEL

Easy

When it comes to desserts you cannot go wrong with our Badam Halwa or Almond Halwa recipe by Chef Preetha. Made with almonds, melted sugar, ghee and topped with aromatic saffron, get ready to enjoy a luscious Badam Halwa for dessert.

INGREDIENTS

    1 cup milk
    A large pinch Saffron
    1 cup Almonds, soaked in water for few hours and peeled
    1 cup Sugar
    ¼ cup water
    ¾ cup Ghee
    ¼ tsp Cardamom powder
    Pinch of edible camphor

DIRECTIONS

– Soak saffron in some milk.
– Blend almonds with remaining milk to a semi coarse/smooth paste.
– In a deep pan, combine sugar and water. Boil till sugar dissolves.
– Reduce flame, add almond paste and keep stirring till mixture starts to thicken.
– Start adding ghee, little by little and cook on low flame till ghee gets absorbed. Add saffron.
– When ghee starts to ooze out and the mixture starts to swirl in the pan, switch off the flame. Add cardamom powder and camphor. Mix well and serve.

About Preetha SrinivasanFollow On

mm

Preetha’s endeavour is to promote south Indian cuisine through her YouTube channel, Dakshin Curry. She absolutely loves curry leaves, and can fit them happily into in any recipe. For those of you who curse the poor thing, dry roast and powder them or use them in your dishes and enjoy the health benefits she says.

View all posts by Preetha Srinivasan

Related Recipes


MEAL TYPE


Recipes we love

makhana-halwa

Navratri Special: Makhana Halwa

Method: 1. Take a broad non-stick pan, add lotus seeds and roast the Makhana on a low heat for 15 minutes o...
banana-walnut-lassi

Navratri Special: Banana Walnut Lassi

Method: 1. In a blender jar, add yoghurt, banana slices, walnuts, saffron and sugar (optional). 2. Grind un...

What's fresh

This dish has made it to the annual Grammy Awards food menu yet again

Here are 10 podcasts about food that you just can’t miss

Here’s what Sequel’s newest outlet in BKC has to offer

Foodstagram

indiafoodnetwork

@IndiaFoodNetwork feeds your appetite for #EverythingFood! Tag your pics with #IFNFoodie to get featured on IFN's Instagram every Friday!
This error message is only visible to WordPress admins

Error: API requests are being delayed for this account. New posts will not be retrieved.

There may be an issue with the Instagram access token that you are using. Your server might also be unable to connect to Instagram at this time.

India Food Network or IFN has a mission to take Indian food to the world. It is your one-stop destination for everything food in India. We've got delicious recipes, hungry travellers and tons of culinary fun, created and curated for foodies by foodies.

India Food Network (IFN) is on multiple platforms including Twitter (@ifn) ,
Instagram (@indiafoodnetwork) , YouTube (indiafoodnetwork) and Facebook (indiafoodnetwork). We broadcast content individually for each platform aiming at different categories of audiences and food lovers, world over. Reach out to us with feedback, ideas or just how you love food and what you would like to see more of on food@pingnetwork.in

All Rights reserved
Copyright India Food Network ©2020