Indian PIneapple Halwa Recipe

Hello friends,

 Love is in the air with Valentine's Day round the corner. So lets cook up something sweet. An Indian desserts this time, a halwa that is super special. I remember savouring Pineapple Halwa at a Bohri friends place. The sweet follows and savoury in a Bohri Thala and Pineapple Halwa was what I truly relished that day.

Recently,I tried to make a Pineapple Halwa recipe that turned out quite good. I have cut down on using ghee in my recipe.  Sharing the easy recipes with all of you. The halwa  is a very popular Indian sweet dish made with Rawa and pineapple. It tastes sweet and sour and has bits of chunky pineapple pieces, really enjoyable.

Ingredients

1 cup Semolina (Rawa)
3/4 cup Ghee
1 cup sugar
2 cups water
1 tsp powdered Cardamon (Elaichi)
1 cup chopped Pineapple
1 cup Pineapple Puree
A few nuts and Raisins

Method

1. Heat half the ghee in a pan, when it is hot add one cup semolina and start roasting it.

2. Keep roasting on slow flame till the rawa turns brown and you get a good aroma. Turn off the gas and take out the semolina on a plate for using later.

3. In the same pan, add the pineapple puree and sugar and stir for 5 minutes.

4. Now add one cup pineapple pieces, cook the pineapple is soft and mushy.

5. Now add 2 cups water and bring to a boil. 

6. When the water boils, add the semolina back to the pan and mix it well. 

7. Add the cardamon powder to this mixture. 

8. Cook the halwa on low flame till the ghee leaves the side of pan. The mixture should be dry and rawa cooked through. 

9. Add the remaining ghee and roast for two minutes more. 

10. Garnish with chopped raisins and nuts.

11. Serve it hot or cold with a scoop of vanilla icecream. 

 

The video below has a step by step recipe so do refer and cook up a tasty pineapple halwa for all at home for Valentine's day. 

Bon Appitet 🍍🍍🍍🍍

Easy Pumpkin (Kaddu) Halwa recipe

Hello Friends,
 

A bit slow with my recipe posts these days, I know it. But the fact is that I have been too busy with other things and posts on my other blog site sweetannu.com . But Nonetheless today I am back with another Indian dessert recipe, low on sugar but high on nutrition and taste. 

 

Its a red pumpkin Halwa. Pumpkin is better known as kaddu or bhopla in our language. It belongs to Cucurbita family like cucumbers, squash. Slightly sweet, the pumpkin is an excellent source of carotenes,  minerals and antioxidants vitamins such as vitamin-A, vitamin-C, and vitamin-E.

So lets not waste any more time and get into making of the recipe.

Ingredients

 2 tbsp Ghee

2 cups Grated Pumpkin

1 cup Sugar

1 cup Milk

 Handful of Dry fruits ( Almonds, walnuts and raisins)

1/2 tsp Cardamom powder

6-8 strands of Saffron

Method 

1. Grate the Pumpkin and keep aside.

2. Mix a little saffron to milk to use later in the recipe. 

3. Take a heavy bottom pan/kadai. Heat up a pan, add ghee on medium heat till fragrant.

 

4. Now add the milk and grated pumpkin to the heated ghee.

5. Let the mixture boil till milk and pumpkin get soaked together and cook for 5-7 minutes.

6. Add the sugar and stir the mixture.

7. To this add the saffron milk and keep stirring. 

8. Mix everything well together so that the mixture doesn't burn at the bottom.

9. When halwa thickens up and milk dries up turn off the gas and cardamom powder.

10. Roast the nuts and raisins in a little ghee and top the halwa with it.

11. Your halwa is ready to be served. Make hot puris or eat it with Vanilla ice cream

 

Note

Khoya( mawa) can be used in this recipe to make it richer.

You can also pressure cooker the pumpkin if you find grating the pumpkin a tedious job.

Avoid sugar, use a sugar free sweetener if desired.

Lessen the quantity as pumpkin is a sweetish type of underground vegetable.

You can store the halwa in freeze for about 7-8 days.

Lets check out Doodhi Halwa recipe here

Doodhi ka Halwa

Hello Friends,

How many of you crave for something sweet to eat after each meal? We all do. The same goes with me. Even if it a few raisins or some sugar free chocolate.

I rarely make desserts. Infact this year I didn't make Gaajar ka Halwa during the season of red carrots. Feeling guilty and craving a halwa I decided to make Doodhi ka Halwa.  My first dessert recipe for this blog. I have such beautiful childhood memories of this Indian sweet. As a child, Mom would take my sister and me to Brijwasi Sweets on Grant Road after school. She would order lassi and doodhi halwa which we would gobble it up with such relish. Enjoyed it hot, infact before I could finish my share the waiter would bring the bill to the table.

Mummy knew we hated doodhi as a vegetable but halwa we could never refuse.
Doodhi or lauki or bottle gourd as known to all is very nutritious as it contains all the goodness needed for the body. So without further ado lets make Doodhi ka Halwa for good times sake.

Ingredients

1. Grated Bottle gourd - 2 cup.
2. 2 tsp powdered Cardamom ( elaichi) 
3. Sugar 1 cup.
4.  1/2 litre milk 
5.  2 tbsp Ghee
6.  Handful of raisins and nuts. 
7.  Sada mawa 1 cup.

Method 

1. Peel and grate bottle gourd.

2. In a deep bottom vessel ( I use non stick from Vinod Cookware)  add ghee and bottle gourd, saute for two minute.

3. Then add the milk, sugar and cook for around 10 minutes, keep stirring occasionally so that it doesn't burn at the bottom. 

4. Add green food colour if desired. But I have not added to this recipe.

5. Add grated mawa as we do not want it lumpy. Keep stirring with a heavy hand. 

6.Cook further it till it dries up and ghee leaves side of pan. 

7. Fry some chopped almonds and raisins and mix in.

8. Before serving add chandi ka vaar ( optional) and some nuts. 

Wow. It was ready to be relished. Wish my mom was here with me. Would have given her an extra dollop of fresh malai in her bowl of doodhi ka Halwa.