Ingredients

45mints
3 servings
  1. 1 cupdates (desseded and chopped)
  2. 1/3 cupghee
  3. 2 tbspsugar
  4. 1/2 cuphot water
  5. 1/4 tspcardamom powder
  6. tbspcashews (broken)

Cooking Instructions

45mints
  1. 1

    Deseed dates if you have seeds.Chop it roughly,measure 1 cup and transfer to a bowl.

  2. 2

    Add hot water,set aside for 30mins,keep covered.Make sure the dates is soaked fully in water.

  3. 3

    Now it must have become soft.Now transfer it to a mixer jar and grind it to a fine paste.

  4. 4

    Take the dates puree in a thick bottomed kadai.Add sugar.

  5. 5

    Keep cooking till it starts to change to dark colour and becomes slightly thick. At this stage start adding ghee.Add 1 or 2 tsp ghee at a time.

  6. 6

    Add ghee little by little and keep cooking.

  7. 7

    Keep cooking in low flame and add ghee at intervals and when the halwa starts to stick.the halwa will absorb the ghee.

  8. 8

    At one stage it will stop absorbing and will let out ghee at the edges as you can see. Add cardamom powder.The halwa will start to form a ball like and will start to leave ghee.

  9. 9

    Add a tsp of ghee and fry cashews till golden brown.Add it to the halwa.Give a quick stir and switch off.

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