Baadhaam/Almond Halwa

 

Kind of rich sweet, have tried this few years back and have over cooked and messed it up into puttu!Now I have mastered it, so sharing the recipe from my mom that I tried today. More pictures...Almond Halwa
Recipe:
* Soak half cup almonds in boiling water, after an hr, peel the skin
* Grind the almonds with water enough to make it into a paste (do not add add water later on)
* Add the paste and equal amount sugar for the paste, little saffron to a non-stick pan
* Stir in low flame, initially it will feel dry and once sugar melts it will be semi liquid
* Stir in medium flame for 10mins and once it starts to tighten a bit like top right picture, turn off.
* U feel it will be half cooked, but turn off, add 2 spoons ghee and stir well.
* Keep adding ghee every few mins, U will start to see it thicken as in the detailed pictures.
* Bottom left picture in the above is like 10mins after I removed from the stove.
Key to this is: stop cooking when it is 3/4th done and keep stirring lots of ghee! In the detailed pictures you can see the ghee I used from the ghee container.