Jaggery - Wheat Halva

Jaggery - Wheat Halva is a sweet and healthy dish. It is good for any age group and any time of the day.

I have used jaggery, wheat flour, cardamom and ghee.
Let us see the recipe
Jaggery  - 1 Cup
Wheat Flour - 1 cup
Cardamom - 6 to 8 pods.
Water - 1 Cup
Haladi or Saffron  : a pinch.
Ghee : 1/2 cup (or little more.)

Method :
1. Keep a pan on the fire and heat. Add a tablespoon of ghee and raisins and cashews.

2. Fry them nicely and add wheat flour and fry them nicely.

3. Keep water for boiling.
4. Fry wheat till it gets the nice aroma. (Raw smell should disappear). Add boiling water slowly and mix the fried wheat flour nicely.

5. Add jaggery to the flour and stir. It should be mixed well and get thickens.
6.Add ghee in between and stir it starts leaving the pan. The ghee starts to leave the halva.

7. Add the remaining ghee and stir. Apply ghee on a tray/plate and keep it aside.
8. shift the ready halva to a tray or plate. Leave it for a while till the halva cools down.

9. Cut them in to short pieces and serve.

Note  : The whole process should be done on low flame so that it does not get sticky or ball kind of paste. You can use more ghee if you wish .You can fry Cashew nuts in ghee instead of roasting. It will be tasty. Wheat flour must be roasted well.
5 to 6 servings.
20 Minutes. 

Aloo - Carrot and Oats Cutlets.

Aloo , Carrot and Oats  Cutlets are  nice to eat as snack...in the evening.


Things Needed  :
Potatoes : 2 to 4 ( Medium sized ).
Carrots : 4 to 6 ( Small ones).
Beetroot : 1 ( Medium size).
Oats : 1 cup
Bread crumbs : 1/2 cup
Green chilly : 2
Garam Masala : 1 Tea spoon
Jeera: 1/2 Tea spoon
Ginger : 1 Tea spoon ( grated)
Coriander leaves: 2 to 3 Table spoon. ( cut into very small).
Salt : to taste.
Oil : 1/2 cup

Method: Boil Potatoes and remove the skin and smash it nicely and keep it aside. Grate beetroot and carrots and cut green chillies and coriander leaves in to small pieces.  Roast Oats for 5 minutes on low flame and keep it aside.
Now keep a pan on the  fire and Put 2 tea spoons of oil and heat. Put jeera ( cumin seeds)  and ginger and fry for 10 seconds.  Add grated carrots, beetroot and green chilly. Fry for 4 to 5 minutes let all the water disappear .  Now add smashed potatoes and oats.  Add  garam masala  and salt to this mixture and stir thoroughly.   Add cut coriander leaves and leave it for few minutes. Prepare small balls of the Potato mixture and keep it aside.
Now keep a frying pan on the fire Sprinkle oil  around the pan.  Take a ball of  Potato - Oats mixture and flatten on the palm or give a shape according to your wish. Roll it on bread crumbs both sides and fry on low flame until its brown.  Use a spoon of oil for both sides and  shallow fry these cutlets one by one...Serve Hot Cutlets with  green chutney or tomato ketch up...
Note : You can add two slice of bread to this mixture.  Remove all the sides of the bread and add it to the potato mixture and   mix well.  Can add more chillies if you like spicy....Can add boiled Pea to this mixture. ( Fresh peas can be boiled nicely and smashed to add it to the mixture).
10 cutlets can be prepared. ( Medium size).