Brain Boosters-Nuts:

Akhrot Halwa:(Vellore Style)

Walnut Halwa/Akhrot Halwa.

Nuts:Brain requires lots of Oxygen rich blood. So anything that keeps your heart strong, such as exercise, ensures a steady supply to it. Besides include plenty of nuts in your diet. They prevent heart diseases.

Its again my favourite Mughalai Style recipe. Myself and my Brother like to have it quite often. It is Yummy and has very different taste from regular halwa’s. Propably because they use lots of ‘milk gova/khoya’ here. Hmmmm, cant wait to have it!!!

Ingredients:

Walnuts 2 cup slightly toasted and grated
Ghee 2 cup
Sugar 2 cup
Milk gova/khoya 2 cup
Heavy cream/milk 1 litre
Condensed milk 1 cup
Cardamon seeds powder 1 spoon.

Method:

Mix sugar and heavy cream and boil them, reduce it into half(maybe add cardamon seeds powder too)

In a seperate pan, heat ghee and add gova, fry it real good. let it get loosened up first and slightly change color. That is golden brown. Do not fry beyond this point. It may become too brown.

So now to this fried gova add redused milk. Further add condensed milk to.

Toss your grated walnuts and cook them. When the halwa consistency is acheived, it leaves the pan. Maybe one can run few more spoons of ghee at this point.

It turns up into dark velvety brown color. With distinct aroma. Serve this after heavy meals. Heaven!!!