Corn Flour Halwa / Karachi Halwa

Ingredients:

Corn flour - 1 cup
Sugar - 3 cups
Water - 4 cups
Ghee - 4 tbsp
Cashew nuts - 1/2 cup
Cardamom powder - 1 tsp
Food colour, red orange - a small pinch

Method:

Take cornflour in a mixing bowl, add 2 cups of water and whisk it well to avoid lumps.Then add food color and mix well.Keep aside.

Grease a plate with 2 tsp of ghee and keep aside.

Fry broken Cashew pieces in ghee and keep aside....

In a pan preferable nonstick, take sugar and add 1 cup of water. Allow it to boil and wait till the sugar completely dissolves and become slightly thick. No need to check for any string consistency but make sure the syrup is sticky.

Then add the cornflour mixture, keep stirring in low flame. Stir continuously to avoid lumps while adding. It will first start to form glossy here and there.Then it will start to thicken and form glossy texture here and there. Keep on stirring  on medium flame until you see the halwa texture.

Once it is thick, add ghee, fried cashews and cardamom powder. When the whole mass becomes thick and starts to leave the sides of the pan switch off the flame and transfer the mixture to a ghee greased plate.

When cool....cut into squares and enjoy.....Soft and yummy halwazzz....