Thursday, January 7, 2010

Polished wheat halwa (ಗೋಧಿ ಹುಗ್ಗಿ ) for new year!

Tried and tasted by Nivedita
Hi All,
Starting my first post in this year with traditional sweet called Godhi Huggi or polished wheet halwa. This is the heaviest sweet which is common in most of the functions in North Karnataka. It is not for weight watchers, as it has lot of dry fruits, jaggery and cups of ghee in to it. And its like, some medicines have instructions written  "not to drive when you take the medicine". You will feel drowsy and lazy after you have this.
Again, one of my favorite sweet.
Here is the recipe,
Polished Wheat : 200gm (Available in Indian store)
Chana dal - 4 tbsp
Jaggery - 200gm, powdered
Cardamom - 4 to 6 crushed
Nutmeg powder - 1 tsp
Poppy seeds - 4 tbsp
Dry desiccated coconut - 1/4 cup
Salt - 1 tsp
Ghee - 1 cup
Water depends on the wheat.
Soak the wheat overnight. In the morning, soak chana dal for an hour or two. Mix wheat and chana dal in a cooker with double the water of soaked wheat. Give 10 to 12 whistles. Yes, wheat takes time to cook. Once cool, open and check the wheat, I mean, take one seed in the hand and press it. If it breaks into pieces then its done. Otherwise you have to grind it to coarse paste.

Once this is done, add powdered jaggery, salt and 1/4 cup ghee and mix well with hand or churner. Keep it on medium heat to boil, keeping in mind to stir in between. once it starts boiling, check the sweetness of the dish and if you feel you need more sweet add some more jaggery(because, it has different taste always, depending upon the sugarcane)
If you feel the sweet is fine, add salt, poppy seeds and coconut. Mix properly and allow it to boil for few more minutes. Now add cardamom powder and nutmeg powder with 1/4 cup ghee. Let it boil for 10 minutes with stirring it often. 
The sweet is ready to eat with more ghee on the top with some spicy chilly and sandige.
Wishing everyone a very happy, prosperous and beautiful new year.
Keep Smiling,

8 comments:

Padma said...

Wishes to you and your family a very Happy New Year Nivedita. Halwa with wheat looks yumm. Nice one for kids too.

Pari Vasisht said...

Hi. This is my husband's favorite. Glad u posted it.

SE said...

one of my favorites...we also call it by name lapsi..

Pavithra Elangovan said...

The halwa looks so good and yummy. Wish you Happy New Year.

Sanghi said...

Looks delicious and tempting dear! Yummy recipe dear!

Nivedita Thadani said...

Thanks a lot dear friends.

priya said...

halwa looks so yummy and tempting, dear!..nice clicks!

Shanthi Krishnakumar said...

Tempting halwa and well presented

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