Badam Halwa

Ingredients:

1 cup Badam (Almond) 

11/2 cup Sugar

1 cup pure Ghee
2 cups Fresh Milk
A pinch of yellow food colouring
Few strands of Saffron

1/8 tsp Cardamon powder

Finely sliced Almonds and pistachio (for garnishing)  

Method:

• Blanch almonds in hot water for 3 hours.
• Peel the outer skin of the almond and grind it into a coarse paste using  a little splash of milk.
• Heat 1/2 cup ghee in an nonstick pan, add the grounded almond paste, the remaining milk and sugar and cook till it becomes thick. Keep on medium low flame.
• Now add the cardamon powder, the food colouring, the remaining ghee and saffron strands. Stir for few more mins till ghee comes to the surface.
• Halwa is ready, when the mixture does not stick to the pan.
• Now grease the serving bowl with ghee and pour the halwa mixture and even it out to form a smooth surface.
• Serve it garnished with finely sliced almonds and pistachio.