Instant Sooji Halwa Mix
Instant Sooji Halwa Mix- Ready to make sooji halwa premix, a quick semolina dessert mix
Prep Time20 minutes mins
Cook Time5 minutes mins
Total Time25 minutes mins
Course: Breakfast, Desserts/Sweets/Mithai, Travel Food
Cuisine: North Indian Cuisine
Keyword: Halwa, sooji halwa, sooji halwa premix
Author: Anjana Chaturvedi
- 1/2 cup Ghee/clarified butter
- 1/2 cup Milk Powder optional
- 1 cup Semolina/ Sooji
- 1 cup Sugar /Chini
- 4 tbsp Cashew/ Kaju chopped
- 3 tbsp Raisins/ Kishmish
- 1/2 tsp Cardamom/ Elaichi
- Pinch Saffron/Kesar
Heat ghee in pan and add the cashew pieces and roast till they start changing colour, take out and keep aside.
Now add semolina /sooji in the pan and roast on low heat to a nice golden brown colour (colour of the almond )
Now switch of the flame and add the raisins in it and stir.
Let the sooji mix cool down completely, grind the sugar and make a fine powder (You can adjust the quantity of sugar as per your taste preference, instead of 1 cup sugar you can add 3/4 cup to 1.25 cup ).
Add the roasted cashew pieces, the powdered sugar, milk powder, crushed saffron and the cardamom powder in the roasted semolina and mix well
Store the sooji halwa mix in an airtight jar.
When you want to use add water and microwave or cook on gas stove
Take a big glass bowl. add instant halwa mix in it and add 1.5 times water to the instant mix(i.e if you take 1/2 cup mix then add 3/4 cup water ) stir it after adding water and micro high for 2 minutes, take out and stir again,now again micro for 2 minutes.Take out and stir and micro for 1 minutes .let it stand for 1 minutes then take out and enjoy! The cooking time may vary according to the watts of each microwave so you may have to cook it for less or more time.
Addition of milk powder is optional.if not using Milk powder then slightly reduce the quantity of sugar.
Notes-
- You can adjust the quantity of sugar as per your taste preference, instead of 1 cup sugar you can add 3/4 cup to 1.25 cup .
- Addition of Milk Powder is optional, you can avoid it if you wish.
- You can add your choice of nuts ,Instead of adding chopped pieces you can add coarsely ground almond and cashew in it.
- You can cook it in a microwave or on a gas top.