Diwali special- Wheat Halwa

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Diwali special wheat halwa.  Its a delicacy and involves a lot of work. You can say laborious work involved in this sweet. But it tastes great and is very healthy too. 

It minimum requires three days hard work to make this sweet. 

Day 1 

Soak half Kg whole wheat in sufficient water for about 8 hours.

Day 2

Drain excess water, keep the  drained water in another bowl. Grind the wheat adding soaked water to a fine paste. Add more water and keep removing the wheat milk using a strainer. Allow the wheat milk to sediment. You will see water becomes clear and the wheat gluten  sediments.  Keep removing only the water and keep adding fresh water unless you get  gluten. 

Day 3

In a heated big pan add ghee, add wheat gluten and cook till wheat milk becomes translucent. Now add sugar and ghee and keep cooking till the ghee separates from the halwa. 

Day 2 

Wheat milk

Day 3 

Wheat gluten cooked in slow flame till translucent

Adding little ghee at a time and keep stirring. You can add sugar at this level.

 Sugar is completely dissolved and you an see the caramelised halwa releasing ghee from the sides.

 Halwa is ready. decorate with roasted almonds.

Ingredients

Whole wheat - 1/2 KG

Sugar - 2 cups

Ghee - 350 grams

Almonds ;- a few thinly slices

Method of Preparation

Soak whole heat for about 8 hours, drain and grind to fine paste, keep extracting the milk out of wheat. Allow the wheat ,milk to sediment, keep throwing the clear water on top and add fresh water.After two three times you will get the thick gluten completely sediments in the bottom of the vessel.

 In a heated pan pour 2 table spoon ghee and add extracted wheat and keep cooking in very slow fire. Once the wheat gluten becomes translucent add sugar and little ghee at a time, keep stirring till you see the ghee separates from the halwa. And the halwa becomes like a glowing jelly. Off the stove Allow the Halwa to take its own time to cool down, Remove the excess ghee when the halwa is warm. You can use it for some other sweets.  Now in another small pan pour a little ghee and roast thinly sliced almonds or cashew nuts. Spread the halwa in a greased plate and cut into desired shape.