Banana Halwa Recipe
Banana Halwa is a tasty dessert which can be easily prepared with just three main ingredients - Banana, sugar and ghee. In this Banana halwa i have added corn flour also to give the halwa a very glossy texture. But adding corn flour is purely optional and is not added in the tradiona recipe of preparing the banana halwa.
Servings: 5
Ingredients
- Banana - 7 to 8
- Sugar - 1 cup *check notes
- Ghee - 4 to 5 tbsp
- Nuts - 4 tbsp almonds, cashews, hazelnuts etc
- Corn flour - 5 tsp
- Water - little
Instructions
- Take banana and slice them
- Make them to a paste in a food processor or mixie jar.
- In a heavy bottomed pan, add 1 tsp ghee and fry the nuts.
- Keep them aside.
- In the same pan, add the banana paste and keep stirring.
- After about 12 min, it starts to thicken.
- Now add the sugar, 1/2 cup first. Check for the sweetness first and then add the remaining sugar.
- Let all the dissolve nicely.
- Now add little water to cornflour and make it a paste. Add this paste to the halwa.
- Once you have added the corn flour mixture, do not stop stirring the halwa.
- The halwa loosens first and then starts to thicken.
- Now add ghee 1 tbsp at time. Add 4 to 5 tbsp of fhee at equal intervals of 3 to 5 min.
- At one stage, the ghee starts to ooze out from the halwa.
- Turn off the stove and serve the tasty banana hakwa hot. Or transfer to a plate greased with ghee, allow to cool down and cut into squares and then serve.
Notes
Check the below notes