Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, amaranth halwa. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Amaranth Halwa is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Amaranth Halwa is something which I have loved my whole life.
One of my favorite gluten free ingredients to cook with is Amaranth (rajagra/ rajgira.) Amaranth Halwa If you've ever eaten at an Indian restaurant, in particular at a lunch buffet, you may be familiar with Sooji Halwa, a sweet dessert made with semolina, cream, lots of ghee, sugar and spices. I've had it several times and absolutely loved it! Rajgira Halwa or Rajgira Sheera is a gluten-free dessert made using Rajgira or Amaranth flour. It is perfect to make for vrat days.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have amaranth halwa using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Amaranth Halwa:
- Prepare 1 1/4 cup Amaranth Coarse Flour
- Make ready 2 Bowls Milk
- Make ready 1 1/2 Bowl Sugar
- Get 1/2 Bowl Ghee
- Prepare 1 Tbsp Almonds (Chopped)
- Get 1 Tbsp Cashew nuts (Chopped)
- Take 1 Tbsp Rasins
- Make ready 1/2 Tsp Cardamon Powder
The star ingredient is of course chaulai (amaranth) which has been eaten in India for a long time. Especially in the state of Uttarakhand, where I'm from it is consumed in the form of laddus, kheer and halwa (various types of Indian desserts) during festival fasts because grains are not consumed during fasts. Amaranth is considered as a super food due to its rich nutrient content. As per 'Healing Foods', it helps in lowering cholesterol, fighting inflammation and also support cellular metabolism.
Steps to make Amaranth Halwa:
- Take ghee and amaranth flour in a kadai and roast it on low flame. Roast it till ghee starts leaving the sides of the kadai and it becomes reddish brown.
- Add warm milk to the roasted amaranth flour. Cook on medium flame stirring continuously till milk gets absorbed completely.
- Once milk is completely absorbed add Sugar and mix properly. Cook on medium flame stirring continuously till ghee starts leaving sides of the kadai.
- Add Chopped dry fruits and some cardamom powder and mix properly.
- Remove from flame. Garnish with Almond Flakes and Cardamon Powder. Serve hot.
Amaranth is considered as a super food due to its rich nutrient content. As per 'Healing Foods', it helps in lowering cholesterol, fighting inflammation and also support cellular metabolism. Halwa (or halva) is a dessert that is typically prepared with grated vegetables (carrots, sun chokes or Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes, potatoes, lauki, water chestnut, zucchini and winter melon), hulled beans, nuts, seeds (amaranth or sesame), sooji (semolina), flours, sugar, clarified butter and milk. The halwa recipe below is amaranth-based and can… Rajgira sheera or Rajgira halwa - a sweet dish made from amaranth flour, sugar, and milk. It is flavored with cardamom powder and garnished with chopped almonds.
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