Sooji ka Halwa – Semolina Pudding

Sooji ka Halwa - Semolina Pudding
While this dessert has simple ingredients and the recipe involves easy methods, this turns up into a pretty exotic desert. Sooji ka Halwa is served as a desert in India, but it is also enjoyed with fresh parathas or bread served in breakfast or brunch in some other parts of the world.
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Cuisine: Indian
Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 4
Prep time: 
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Ingredients
  • 1⁄2 lb semolina /sooji / fine split wheat
  • 5 T clarified butter or ghee
  • 1 c sugar to taste
  • 4 cardamom
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 10 almonds
  • 10 cashews
  • 12 raisins
  • 1 pn orange food color/ saffron
  • 1⁄2 c milk
Instructions
  1. Warm the clarified butter/ghee in a thick bottom pot. I strongly recommend using these for cooking desserts since it regulates heat well and skips the sugars from getting burnt.
  2. Fry the almonds and cashews till golden brown. The raisins need to be fried and removed quickly. Set aside these dry fruits to garnish later.
  3. In the same pot with ghee add cinnamon sticks and cardamom, these spices emanate a lot of flavor to the dessert.
  4. Next add Sooji/ semolina to the pot in small portions and sauté on low flame, stirring occasionally till it is slightly brown and emanates a pleasant aroma.
  5. Alternatively, in another pot make sugar syrup by heating ½ to 1 cup water and sugar together.
  6. Add this sugar syrup plus an additional 2 cups of warm water to the Sooji/semolina for it to cook.
  7. Keep stirring the Sooji while cooking on low flame and check for sweetness. Adjust sugar to taste.
  8. When the Sooji/ semolina absorbs the syrup and gets cooked, add the saffron mixed in ½ cup of milk.
  9. Keep stirring till a good consistency is formed and the Sooji dessert is done.
  10. Garnish with golden almonds, cashews and raisins and serve warm.
Notes
The sooji halwa or semolina pudding is made is different parts of the world with slight variations. Sooji halwa/ semolina pudding seems to be part of cuisines of India, Pakistan, Greece, Morocco, Italy and Germany!
Serving Size
Serving size: 4

 

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