Dates Halwa is a delicious, yummy sweet made by simmering dates with ghee, sugar & flavours. Dates Halwa is commonly made during Ramzan month and keeps energized for long. Dates Halwa is simple & quick to make compared to the other Halwas.
Dates Halwa is an easy halwa recipe made with minimal ingredients yet tastes delicious. As its ramadan month thought of posting this Dates Halwa Recipe as I heard from one of my friend about this recipe.
If you like dates then this halwa is a must try for you.I used brown dates as suggested by my friend so am sure of the taste when black dates is used.
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Dates Halwa
Ingredients
- 1 cup dates deseeded and chopped
- 1/3 cup ghee
- 2 tablespoon sugar
- 1/2 cup hot water
- 1/4 teaspoon cardamom powder
- 1 tablespoon cashews broken
Instructions
- Deseed dates if you have seeds. Chop it roughly, measure 1 cup and transfer to a bowl.
- Add hot water, set aside for 30mins, keep covered. Make sure the dates is soaked fully in water.
- Now it must have become soft. Now transfer it to a mixer jar and grind it to a fine paste.
- Take the dates puree in a thick bottomed kadai. Add sugar.
- Keep cooking till it starts to change to dark color and becomes slightly thick. At this stage start adding ghee.
- Add 1 or 2 teaspoon ghee at a time. Add ghee little by little and keep cooking.
- Keep cooking in low flame and add ghee at intervals and when the halwa starts to stick. The halwa will absorb the ghee.
- At one stage it will stop absorbing and will let out ghee at the edges as you can see. Add cardamom powder. The halwa will start to form a ball like and will start to leave ghee.
- Add a teaspoon of ghee and fry cashews till golden brown.
- Add it to the halwa. Give a quick stir and switch off. Enjoy Dates Halwa!
Dates Halwa Recipe Step by Step
- Deseed dates if you have seeds.Chop it roughly ,measure 1 cup and transfer to a bowl.
- Add hot water,set aside for 30mins,keep covered.Make sure the dates is soaked fully in water.
- Now it must have become soft.Now transfer it to a mixer jar and grind it to a fine paste.
- Take the dates puree in a thick bottomed kadai.Add sugar.
- Keep cooking till it starts to change to dark color and becomes slightly thick. At this stage start adding ghee.Add 1 or 2 teaspoon ghee at a time.
- Add ghee little by little and keep cooking.
- Keep cooking in low flame and add ghee at intervals and when the halwa starts to stick.the halwa will absorb the ghee.
- At one stage it will stop absorbing and will let out ghee at the edges as you can see. The halwa will start to form a ball like and will start to leave ghee.It will not stick and will be greasy,this is right stage.
- Add a teaspoon of ghee and fry cashews till golden brown.Add it to the halwa.Give a quick stir and switch off.
Serve warm.
Enjoy the halwa hot or warm!
Haji
Super! Will definitely give a try…by the way..I like the arabic sort of font …in dates halwa.
sara
Where you bought this spoon
Yummy halwa☺
Sharmilee J
Bought it from amazon…search as vintage spoons