Aate Ka Halwa Recipe

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Aate Ka Halwa is a popular Indian sweet dish made with whole wheat flour. Learn how to make gurudwara style kada prasad.

Prep Time10

Cook Time40

Total Time50

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: Indian

Servings:

Calories: 690kcal

In a heavy bottom flat pan heat ghee. Add flour and start roasting it over low heat turn till the color of flour is deep brown and a sweet roasted aroma is released. This usually takes 10 - 15 minutes over low heat.
Keep stirring the flour while roasting for even coloring and avoid burning.
Meanwhile, boil the water and sugar in a saucepan over medium-high heat till sugar is nicely dissolved in water. Simmer the sugar syrup over low heat till flour is nicely roasted. Add a teaspoon of cardamom powder for taste and aroma (optional).
Add the warm sugar syrup slowly to the roasted flour. Keep stirring the mixture continuously in a circular clockwise motion to avoid any lump formation (refer video).
Stir and cook the halwa till it absorbs all the sugar syrup (refer video). Cover and cook for a minute over low heat. After a minute, turn off the heat. Garnish with sliced almonds, if you prefer.
Serve Aate Ka Halwa warm.

Heavy Bottom or a heavy-duty flat pan to make the halwa especially for perfectly roasting the wheat flour.
It is always best to use wheat flour with coarse texture to make halwa or you can use freshly milled wheat flour instead of packaged one.
Use 100% pure wheat flour and not mixed or multigrain flour for this recipe.
Slow roasting is the key step in making a deep brown color halwa. Always slow roast wheat flour over a low-medium flame while continuously stirring it.
Do not give up on flour until a nice, nutty aroma is released and the color of the wheat flour is changed from pale white to light brown like a biscuit.
If you are adding cardamom powder or saffron, mix them in sugar syrup.
Continuously stir the halwa after adding the sugar syrup to avoid any lump formation. The consistency of wheat halwa is spoon dropping.