Cornflour halwa /Bombay Karachi Halwa

Cornflour Halwa:

Cornflour halwa is also known as Bombay karachi halwa. This halwa is easy to make and it tastes well.For this halwa I have used yellow food color. You can use any color of your choice but traditionally yellow, orange and red colors are used. Let us see how to make cornflour halwa recipe.

Ingredients:

1. Cornflour - 1/2 cup
2. Water - 1 and 1/2 cups
3. Orange/yellow food color - 1 pinch
4. Sugar  - 1 cup  
5. Cashew nuts / Almonds - 1/4 cup
6. Cardamom powder - 1 pinch
7. Dry Ginger powder - 1 tsp
8. Ghee - 2tbsp

Method:

• Grease a plate with ghee.
• In a pan add 1 tsp of ghee and add badam and cashews and fry it till brown.
• Add sugar in a pan and 1 cup of water and allow it to boil. Let the sugar syrup thickens, no need to bring it to the string consistency.
  
  
  
  
• Meanwhile in a mixing bowl add the cornflour and 1 and 1/2 cup of water, food color and mix well without lumps and keep aside.
  
• After the sugar syrup thickens add the cornflour mixture and mix well and make the stove in the low flame. Stir the mixture continuously ,you can see the mixture gets thickens.
  
  
  
  
• After the mixture thickens add ghee and mix well.
  
  
  
  
• Now add the fried cashews and badam , cardamom powder, dry ginger powder and mix well.
• When the mixture gets thickens , it will not stick to the pan, this is the right consistency.
  
  
  
• Pour this mixture to the ghee greased plate and keep it aside. Let it cool.
  
  
  
  
• When it cool completely cut the halwa in squares.