I just lit up, when I saw a friend request from my best buddy (actually my soul mate)…with whom I had lost touch with. When we spoke to each other…it was so mutual and so natural…that we started being silly, pulling each other’s legs and giggling for the whole time! He quoted all about the stupid things I used to utter! To my surprise…some of the incidents did sound like ‘Me’, but it didn’t ring a bell…I just realized that my upper part of my cranium isn’t functioning as good as it used to be. But, anyway…he kept rambling about all the commonalities that we had had! hmmmm, however…hard I thought…few things were totally ‘gaayab‘…nothing seem to resonate! Well…whenever he mentioned something about canteen or sweet stall, it just rapidly fired into my brain cells!

He smiled and said…I haven’t changed a bit.

 Ingredients

• Almonds 1 bowl full
• Milk 1 cup
• Cardamom powder 1-2 spoons
• Sugar 1 bowl full
• Saffron 1/2 spoon
• Ghee 1 cup

Method

Soak Almonds in warm water for 20-30 minutes and peel its skin off. Puree it using milk to thick paste. Set aside.

Mix saffron with few spoons of milk and grind it.

In a non-stick pan, add ghee and cardamom powder. Try to maintain the whole process on low flame. Now add sugar and 1/2 cup of water…bring this to syrup consistency.

To this syrup add badam paste and saffron. Constant stirring with well greased wooden spatula is advised.

Once the Halwa consistency is achieved transfer it to well greased container. Smear the container preferably with ghee.

The shelf life is more than a month. If refrigerated it stay long till 3-4 months.