How to Make Apple Halwa

Halwa is a dense sweet confection served as dessert in India. Here I have tried my hands on making halwa with apples. The apple halwa has a wonderful taste that you will love it

Please see the step by step instructions on how to make Apple Halwa

• Two Apples
• Handful of Cashew nuts
• 5 to 6 Cardamom pods
• One cup of Sugar
• About half a cup of cow's ghee

• Peel the apple skin and cut into pieces
• Remove seeds and core from the apple pieces
• The cut pieces weighed slightly more than 250 grams

• Transfer the apple pieces to a mixer grinder and grind them to a fine paste. Do not add any water.

• Break the cashew nuts into small pieces
• In a small frying pan add a drop of ghee and stir-fry the cashew nuts to golden brown
• Remove from pan and keep aside

• Add one cup of sugar to a mixer grinder and grind to a fine powder

• Break open the cardamom pods and remove the seeds
• Using a mortar and pestle grind the cardamom seeds into fine powder

• Keep a flat bottomed frying pan over low heat and add the apple paste to the pan
• Add about 2 teaspoons of ghee and stir continuously till water content from apple paste evaporates and ghee oozes out from sides

• Add the powdered sugar to apple paste in the pan and mix well
• Add teaspoon of ghee at intervals and stir continuously
• First the sugar will melt and form a semi liquid mix with apple paste
• Keep on low flame and stir continuously so that the mix will not stick to the pan
• After some time you will notice that the mix started coming out cleanly from the pan and little amount ghee is also expelled from the dish

• Now add the cardamom seed powder and fried cashew nuts to the Halwa and mix well
• Put off the flame and transfer the Halwa to another bowl

The delicious Apple Halwa can be served as Dessert. The Halwa made with 2 apples will serve about 2 to 3 people.