Corn Flour Halwa made in a Microwave in less than 15 mins - Diwali Special Recipes

Many of you must have seen my facebook status update, I mentioned that "I have not started cooking for diwali yet" and raised a question like "what recipe do you want me to cook?". The answer from many is sweets, so decided to do different types of easy sweets. You can see lots of diwali recipes in my blog for this whole week.

Yesterday I made this halwa, Can you ever imagine that a halwa can be made in less than 15 mins. Now you can. I used my trusty microwave for cook this one and the result was pretty impressive. The colour was awesome, the texture was a bit like jelly but you get some crunchy nuts inbetween makes it more tasty.I took some to my mom's place and everyone loved a lot. 

Hope you will try it and let me know what you think..

Cooking Time : 15 mins

Yields - 16 - 2 cm pieces

Recipe Source : Raks Kitchen

Ingredients:

Corn Flour / Corn Starch - 1/2 cup

Sugar - 1 1/2 cup

Water - 2 cup

Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

Food Colouring - few drops

Ghee - 2 tblspn

Almonds / Cashews - 3 tblspn chopped

Method:

Take a microwave safe bowl. Add in corn flour, sugar, water, cardamom, food colouring and mix well.

Microwave this on high power for 15 mins. Take it out after every 4 mins and mix well, so that it doesn't form any lumps.

Heat ghee in a small pan and fry some almonds in it. Pour this over the halwa and mix well.

Grease a plate with ghee. Pour this halwa on it and shape it.

Let it cool for 30 mins. Now cut into pieces and serve.

Notes:

You can make this entirely on stove top. But use a non stick pan and keep stiring continously. When the halwa starts to leave the sides trasfer it to the greased plate..

Use the same cup to measure all the ingredients.

Cooking time will vary as per the heat of the oven.

Pictorial:

Take all your ingredients

Take cornflour in a microwave safe bowl

add sugar to it

Pour some water

and mix well

Now take your favorite food colouring

squeeze few drops in and mix well

add a touch of cardamom powder

and mix well

Now microwave it for 6 mins

and microwave again till it gets thick

Take ghee and almonds in a small pan

and fry them on low heat

Pour that over the halwa

Mix well

Halwa ready

Grease a plate with ghee

pour the halwa in 

slice and serve