Recipe: Moong ki dal ka Halwa

(It’s generally a winter dish, in summers it will taste best when combined with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.)

Ingredients:

-3 cups of Yellow lentil (Moong dal)

-1 cup of sugar

-small cup of ghee

Cardamom splits (5 pieces)

-3 Cups of water

-1 cup of milk

-Finely chopped dry fruits.

Recipe:

-First of all soak Moong dal in water, preferably for 12 to 15 hours

-After that make a smooth paste out of dal in a processor.  Avoid using water.

-While the paste is ready, make sugar syrup by putting raw sugar into the water.  Heat the mixture to prepare the syrup.

- Now, put cardamom pods into it.

- Now, heat ghee or butter in a pan on a slow flame

- After the process is done, add dal paste and keep stirring it. Do it till it gets golden.

- Now, add milk or Khoya and cook it for some time.  In case you are using Khoya, cook for 4 minutes whereas with milk you need to wait till it becomes thick like a cream.

-Now put sugar syrup into the paste.

-Turn off the fire and add chopped nuts.  It is ready to serve.

-It will be fun to serve dal Halwa with Vanilla ice cream.

 pic courtesy:http://blog.kfoods.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/besan-ka-halwa.jpg