Haalbayi Halwa

Payaswini's Recipes





Ingredients:
1 cup rice (soaked in water over night)
4 cups grated fresh coconut
2-3 cups jaggery (mashed)
1-2 tbsp. ghee
1 tsp. cardamom powder
Method:
Grind soaked rice (add little water if necessary) into a fine paste. Mix throughly with jaggery and set aside.
Put coconut in a blender, add little water and blend till smooth. Strain to extract the milk.
Repeat with the same residue twice, restrain.
Press out till residue is crumbly.
Place the coconut milk in a nonstick pan and bring to the boil over medium heat.
Keep stirring continuously for 10-15 minutes. Stir periodically to avoid burning at the bottom.

Add rice and jaggery paste to it, stir continuously.
Add ghee, cardamom and stir continuously over a medium heat.
The mixture should be quiet thick. After mixture separates from bottom of the container, take out the mixture and
spread into a greased tray. Cut into squares or triangles.
Serve cold.