Method- Cover the broken wheat with water and soak for two hours.
- Soak almonds in warm water, and remove the skin.
- Soak the saffron strands in a little warm water.
- Grind well the soaked wheat with water, and filter through a mesh to extract the wheat milk.
- Grind it yet again with some more water and extract more milk.
- Repeat the process till all the wheat milk is extracted, and discard the solids.
- Add water, if necessary to make up four cups of wheat milk.
- Start cooking the wheat milk with sugar in a heavy bottomed pan.
- Keep stirring to avoid lumps.
- Once it starts boiling it will thicken very fast. So keep stirring.
- Add half of the ghee and keep cooking until the mixture becomes like a thick custard.
- Add the soaked saffron and blend well.
- Add the remaining ghee and cardamom powder and remove from heat when the halwa leaves the sides of the pan.
- Pour into a greased plate and decorate with almonds.
- The halwa will set like a custard when it cools down, and now you can cut them as desired.
- Store it in the fridge in the plate as it is, and relish piece by piece when ever you crave for it!
Recipe courtesy: Chitra Amma's Kitchen