Tirunelveli Halwa Recipe

Tirunelveli Halwa Recipe, also known as Godhumai halwa, wheat halwa is one of the popular halwa recipe from Tirunelveli. It is made using wheat, sugar and ghee which comes together to a glassy textured halwa.

Tirunelveli Halwa Recipe

This halwa was on my to do list for ages. Finally me and mom made it couple days back and it was a huge hit. I shared it on my youtube channel and it was pretty success. So i thought of sharing step wise pictures on blog too.

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• About Tirunelveli Halwa
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About Tirunelveli Halwa

Tirunelveli is famous for a sweet called, 'Iruttu kadai halwa'. Iruttu Kadaihalwa, founded in 1900 in Tirunelvel is a legendary century-old brand known for its "dark shop" (Iruttu Kadai) near the Nellaiappar Temple.

The halwa is made with water, wheat, and ghee. It is famous for its authentic taste and the name is achieved because the shop is open during evenings with minimal light.

Usual wheat halwa is made from wheat flour which is called as atta halwa. But this version uses whole wheat grains or wheat rava. The milk is extracted from wheat rava which is then cooked with sugar and ghee to create this silky melt in mouth halwa.

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Ingredients

• Wheat - In the making of Tirunelveli halwa we use either wheat, wheat rava or wheat flour. The starch from the wheat is extracted and used to make halwa.
• Sugar - a small amount of sugar is caramelized to achieve the colour in halwa and remaining is sugar is used in the making of halwa.
• Ghee - Use pure desi ghee for making this halwa. which adds to the aroma and taste.
• Cashews - raw cashews is added into the halwa in the end.

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Step by Step pictures

1)Take wheat rava in a bowl. Cover with water and allow it to soak in water for 1 to 2 hours.

2)Now strain the wheat rava and take it in a blender, puree till smooth by adding some water.

3)Now strain this and extract as much milk as possible. Take the milk in a bowl. Now set this milk aside for 30 minutes. You can see the water collected on top.

4)Now discard the top liquid.

5)Add 2 cups of water to the milk and mix well.

5)Now take ½ cup of sugar in the pan in which you are making halwa. Stir and cook gently until it caramelizes.

6)Now cook the sugar till dark caramel is achieved. Stir and cook until it is all melted.

7)Now add in the remaining 21/2 cups of sugar.

8)Pour in 1 cup of water and mix well. As soon as you add the water the sugar will crystallise. But keep mixing it will become a syrup.

9)This is how it will look like.

10)Now pour in the wheat milk mixture into the syrup.

11)Keep mixing until the milk is combined with the sugar syrup.

12)it will start to cook and become glassy in look.

13)Now start adding in ghee little at a time. Keep cooking.

14)Keep cooking until the mixture get glassy in texture.

15)It may take upto 25 to 30 minutes. You have add ghee little at time. At one point the halwa will become nonsticky and leave the sides of the pan in one mass.

16)add in cashews and mix well.

17)Thats it your wheat halwa is ready.

18)Enjoy.

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