Navratri

Aloo Ka Halwa

March 22, 2014 by Bhawana

This is my entry to Think spice…think Saffron event of this month, hosted by Sunita. Thank u Sunita. http://sunitabhuyan.blogspot.com/

Hi Vijaya, I am happy to post this recipe for you, hope u will try it & let me know if u like it.

Aloo Ka Halwa

Author: Bhawana

Ingredients

3 cups boiled grated potatoes
1 cup powdered sugar (acc. to taste)
3 tbsp ghee
2 tbsp warm water mixed with few strands of Saffron
1 tsp cardamom powder
1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Instructions

Heat ghee in a heavy bottomed pan.
Add grated potatoes and fry well on a low flame stirring continuously till golden brown.
Add sugar and saffron water stir continuously till the ghee starts separating from the potatoes mixture.
Add cardamom pd and chopped nuts stir again for more 2 minutes.
Serve hot.

"Food is not about impressing people, It's about making them feel comfortable." I still remember when I got married & came to US first two days I don’t have to bother about food, we were eating out and then we went to grocery store & there the reality struck. Its not that cooking was a new term to me but cooking with out taking instructions & help of my mother & grandmother was something new and different. Newly married, nervous but with lot of confidence I cooked bhindi (okra) & burnt it but my husband M ate it like nothing happened though he didn’t say anything but I felt really bad. That day I realized that I used to cook before but all on my mother’s instructions. That means it’s a new world to me and has to start cooking from scratch without my mother’s help. M always been very encouraging to me & till today he is my guinea pig. And i like cooking for him.