Friday, June 25, 2010

Wheat Flour Halwa & Gifted Cookbooks

Special days never been celebrated without some sweets, i fond always for Karaikal halwa, whenever my dad goes there, he never return back without some wheat halwas, i know making out wheat halwa from the scratch needs loads of patience and a long process, finally i went for an alternative way of making wheat halwa and i choosed atta flour for making out my favourite wheat halwa, it took very less time when compared from the traditional way of making out halwa, i loved this delicious halwa and the whole cooking process take less than an hour and tastewise we guys loved it and enjoyed each and every bite of this halwa...Am very proud to share my new cookbooks which entered to my bookshelf from today onwards..Most of u would have know that am a mega winner of Radhika's Food For Stages Of Life and also she gave me an opportunity to choose the book i wanted to recieve, i went through Amazon.com and i choosed a baking book, for my surprise Radhika send me a beautiful cookbook calling Punjabi Sabzis, thanks a ton Radhika, am very happy to get these two cookbooks from u dear, am very much happy and honoured.

Wheat flour halwa

1cup Atta flour
1/2cup Sugar
2cups Milk
1/4cup Ghee
1/4cup Almond flakes
1tsp Cardamom powder
Orange food colour

Sieve the atta flour, in a heavy bottomed pan, dry roast the atta flour until the aroma comes out, meanwhile heat the milk, sugar and orange food colour,bring everything to boil until the sugar get dissolved, add gradually the hot milk to the roasted wheat flour,stir continously until the wheat flour get cooked, now add the ghee little by little along with cardamom powder, almond flakes..finish the ghee until the wheat flour halwa get off from the bottom of the pan, pour this halwa in a greased plate..let them cool and slice them as u desire..

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Am a proud owner of these beautiful cookbooks, thanks again to Radhika for this beautiful books..

49 comments:

Srividhya Ravikumar said... Reply To This Comment

First many congrats priya and halwa looks yummy.. i too have simple wheat flour halwa recipe on my blog.. pls do check whenever u ve time.. nice dear..

sanjeeta kk said... Reply To This Comment

Nice idea to make in square pieces. I posted a similar recipe quite sometime back as The Wholewheat Treat.
Got another idea to make squares. Good.

Shanthi Krishnakumar said... Reply To This Comment

congrats and the halwa is tempting

Indian Khana said... Reply To This Comment

Wow this looks yummy Priya...congrats on the books :)

Pari Vasisht said... Reply To This Comment

Priya, I loved the idea of cutting into squares. I will look fwd to ur recipes from the baking book.

Nithu Bala said... Reply To This Comment

Congrats Dear:-) The Halwa looks tempting...shall I take those Halwa pieces???

Preeti Kashyap said... Reply To This Comment

Even I cut wheat halwa in squares for a change! This is so very yumm!

Home Cooked Oriya Food said... Reply To This Comment

congrats!
yummy halwa!

Sushma Mallya said... Reply To This Comment

looks beautiful, havent used wheat flour to make halwa till now and seems like a good one...and congrats for the cookbooks priya,lucky you..

Vrinda said... Reply To This Comment

Congrats Priya,halwa looks delish...

Umm Mymoonah said... Reply To This Comment

Congrats on winning Priya, halwa looks so tempting, my mouthwatering here.

Taste of Beirut said... Reply To This Comment

Congratulations! Good for you!
This halvah sounds totally yummy!

Hamaree Rasoi said... Reply To This Comment

Congrats on the books :-) Halwa looks tempting and you have given nice shape also

Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi

Torviewtoronto said... Reply To This Comment

Congrats Priya
Halwa looks tasty

divya said... Reply To This Comment

Congrats Priya.....tempting to grab it right now..nice click

Nitha said... Reply To This Comment

Congrats Priya..

Tha halwa looks delicious..

Guna's kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

wow it came out really perfect!!!!!! halwa luks so yummy...well tried

Madhuri Krishna Bhat said... Reply To This Comment

Congrats on the gift.. get to see recipes of the book on ur blog.

Halwa looks delicious

Suja Manoj said... Reply To This Comment

Congrats Priya..halwa looks delicious..never tried this wheat halwa,will surely try this soon.

Rachana said... Reply To This Comment

Congrats Priya! If I had the choice, I would also buy a Julia Child cookbook. Halwa looks too good dear!

Kiran said... Reply To This Comment

Halwa looks very delicious.
Congrats on winning two lovely books.Your win means more treats for us.

Satya said... Reply To This Comment

congrats priya for winning such a lovely cook books ...halwa is very delicious n tempting..

Suman Singh said... Reply To This Comment

congrats Priya...halwa looks de-licious..like the idea of making them in square shaped and adding food color..looks very attractive..

Rach said... Reply To This Comment

Congrats! halwa looks so yummy!Never heard of karaikudu halwa before( coz, i have frenz from there) Will ask my frenz to get this from karaikudu next time.

Mary Bergfeld said... Reply To This Comment

This looks delicious. I will have to keep my eyes open for atta flower. I hope you are having a good day. Blessings...Mary

MyExperimentsWithFood said... Reply To This Comment

Congrats Priya on winning those books. Halwa looks tempting. I too posted one halwa recipe yesterday.

Suji said... Reply To This Comment

Beautiful halwa..looks yummy

Congrats Priya

Love
Kairali sisters

Shabitha Karthikeyan said... Reply To This Comment

Halwa looks so good...Came out so perfect !!! Congrats on wining those wonderful cookbooks !!! Chummavae neega kalakkuvigha..ini kaetkavae venam :-)

Vikis Kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Congrats Priya dear. Wish to learn more baked goodies and Punjabi subzis through you. Hugs to Radhika too. Halwa looks incredibly delicious....that plate makes me crave:)

Indian food recipes said... Reply To This Comment

wow!Halwa luks so tempting!perfect shape&lovely colour...congrats Priya...

Ivy said... Reply To This Comment

The halwa sounds great and congrats for winning those books.

Swathi said... Reply To This Comment

Wheat halwa looks really yummy. congrats on winning the cook books.

sathya said... Reply To This Comment

Congrats priya !
Halwa looks delicious....

Rachana said... Reply To This Comment

Congrats Priya! Looking forward to the delicious recipes from this book.

Halwa looks delicious!

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Priya, firstly let me complement you on halwa, this is the most common halwa in my family, but never added color, so that's a great idea to add color and make it bright :)

And, wow, congrats on the books, lovely, both the books look great, baking with Julia and punjabi sabzis, wow, enjoy and share some wonderful recipes from those books :)

GayathriRaj said... Reply To This Comment

hey firstly congrats for the cookbooks...really for the enrgy and all the interest u put on ur blog deserves as many as u can.....hope to see u with more and more...
Those halwa pieces are looking very yummy...how it came that perfect dear....really u rock...

Niloufer Riyaz said... Reply To This Comment

Congrats Priya! on receiving two cookbooks. Halwa is simply delicious. romba supera irukku

Menaga Sathia said... Reply To This Comment

congrats priya!! halwa looks really very delicious....

sonu said... Reply To This Comment

lovely cook book..congo priya...and loved the halwa..we make it very often but with water instead of milk and never add colour..will try ur version too :)

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

the halwa looks so wonderfully delicious..yumm..

Aruna Manikandan said... Reply To This Comment

Priya congratulations dear!!!!

Halwa looks delicious dear...
Using wheat flour sounds interesting..

I too love karaikal halwa,my dad always comes with this halwa, when he goes for a meeting :-)

Jaisy James said... Reply To This Comment

WOW MY FAVOURITE LOOKS PERFECT DEAR

Ameya said... Reply To This Comment

wow, that looks scrumptious!!!

Nandinis food said... Reply To This Comment

Congrats on the books! Very lovely halwa there!

Simplyfood said... Reply To This Comment

I love this halwa looks devine.

jayasree said... Reply To This Comment

Congrats Priya for the well deserved win.

Delicious halwa..

RV @ Food for 7 Stages said... Reply To This Comment

Thanks Priya. I am so happy that you liked these books.

Mahi said... Reply To This Comment

Congrats priya! halwa is delicious! yummmmm! :P

Nivedita Thadani said... Reply To This Comment

HI Priya
Thank you so much for sending this recipe to my event.
I never thought the wheat halwa can get such a lovely color.