Apple Halwa

It has already been a week since the start of this year and I am getting busier with each passing year.  The last year was not a good year to me.. I had a lots and lots of down and a small up once in a while.  It was a very low time for me and blogging had taken a back seat.  I hope and pray that this year would be good and prosperous to all of us.  I start this new year entry with a sweet that I learnt from Kurinji.  It was really good (a guilty indulgence) and an alternate way to enjoy this delicious fruit when its available in abundance during winter.

Ingredients

• Apple pulp - 1 cup or 2 whole apples
• Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Ghee - 1/4 cup
• Cashew - 10
• Food color - 1 pinch

Method

Peel and core the apples and make a pulp of them using the food processor.  Heat a non stick pan and add a few tbsp of ghee.  Roast the Cashews till golden brown and keep aside.  Add some more ghee and add the apple pulp to it.  Keep stirring till they reduce giving away all the water content.  It will absorb all the ghee at this stage.  Add the sugar and the food color to this .  Keep stirring till you see ghee at the sides.  Add the roasted cashews to the halwa and serve hot.

The ratio of pulp : sugar : Ghee - 1:1/2:1/4

See Kurinjis post to have a look at the pics of the Halwa in making.

Awards

I am honored that a few of our blogging friends has passed a couple of awards to me.  Though I had been slagging the entire year, it was a big boost to post even the few recipes.  Thank you girls..

Gayathri of Gayathri's Cook Spot and Amritha Kalyani of AK's Vegetarian Recipe World have both passed on the One Lovely blog award.

 

Soumya of Soumya's Kitchen has passed the Stylish Blogger award

My other blog

In the mean time, to escape the tantrums of life, I had turned myself to Books and Movies.  Now I have got addicted and have started a blog (TELL A STORY) to review all the movies and esp the books I had enjoyed.