Sooji Halwa
January 27th, 2007 filed under Desserts
Sooji Halwa is a very popular sweet dish all over India and is made on religious occasions, as parsad (offering to God). After prayer Halwa is served to devotees as a blessing.
Makes 4 servings.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup sooji (rava, semolina flour)
- 1/4 cup ghee (clear butter)
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 1/2cup water
- Pinch of cardamom powder
- 1 tablespoon sliced almonds for garnish
Method:
- Boil the water with sugar, and cardamom powder in a pan over low medium heat. Bring to a boil and Set aside.
- Melt the butter in a frying pan on medium heat.
- Add sooji and roast to golden brown color; stirring constantly this will take about 5 to 8 minutes. Sooji will be golden brown in color and will have a light sweet aroma.
- Add the syrup slowly, as you add the syrup to sooji water will splatter.
- Turn down the heat to medium low and let it cook for about 2-3 minutes.
- Sooji will absorb the water, as the Halwa cools so keep Halwa a little more softer then you want.
- Garnish with almonds.
Serving suggestion:
- Serve hot for best taste. If you like, garnish with shaved pistachio, almonds or shredded coconut.
- For breakfast serve with aloo poori.
Variations:
Instead of water add 1 cup of milk and 1/2 cup of water and keep Halwa a little thicker. Pour the Halwa on a greased plate, keep it about 1/2 inch thick. Garnish with shaved almonds or pistachio or shredded coconut, and let it cool for about a half an hour. Cut the Halwa in square or diamond shapes like burfee.
Namaste Manjula Aunty,
This site is amazing,i love it.Thankyou for all of ur hardwork,ihave tried ur Soozi halwa dessert(for prasadam to god) today because today is guru poornima,it is just fantastic,thankyou.
Namaste Auntyji,
I made your suji halwa yesterday as prasad after finishing my “sai satcharitra” reading.
It came out very very well. I am sure SaiBaba would have loved it too.
Auntyji, I am extremely fond of cooking and I love to cook new dishes for my husband.He loves this halwa & puri. So to add value, I made puris and aloo subzi too.
Halwa was for prasad, but puri was specially for my husband.
Thank you so much.
Manjula ji i tried your sooji halwa and it turned out good.
See the pic here in my blog and please do leave ur comments there…. would really love to hear from u….here goes the link
http://chutkibharpyar.blogspot.com/2008/05/its-time-to-celebrate-some.html
thanx
Shubha
Hello Manjula ji…
i tried ur sooji halwa today…. its under making now… and the recipe seemed so easy…. lets see how is the outcome… thanx for the recipe.. will post it in my blog with a link to ur site…. thank u
Shubha
Hello Charu it should be 1/3 cup sugar sorry for mistake
I had a quick question….I found your utube video for the sooji halwa and there it said 3/4 cup of sugar…your recipe above says 1/3 cup….I have all my ingredients out and ready to go but I am not sure of how much sugar to put…please help:)
Thanks
Charu
Yes you can add milk instead of water.
Thanks for the recipe. your recipe are simple and easy to make someone told me that milk can be added instead of water is it true?
hi,
i am nisha from london, i am vegetarian.
i enjoyed all the recipes u have shown on u r sight.
i will try to make gajjer ka halwa,
pls do show me the dudhi ka halva, and tal sankri..i am very keen to know how to make, so i can make here in london.
all the best.
nisha
Namaste Manjulaji,
I recently found your site while searching for some recipe. I love cooking. I am living in Switzerland at present. I enjoy to watch your recipes as they are without Oninon and Garlic. I tried out your sooji halwa recipe and it turned out to be great!
Thank you so much for all your recipes. I am going to try out all of them one by one.
I appreciate your work and the person behind the camera capturing all the details very well.
Dhanyawaad!
Rashi