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Punjab · Breakfast

Halwa Puri

Traditional 20. Halwa Puri recipe

🧺 Ingredients

• ½ cup semolina (sooji/rava)
• ⅓ cup sugar
• ⅓ cup ghee
• 1.25 cups water
• ½ tsp cardamom powder
• 10-12 cashews, halved
• 2 tbsp golden raisins
• 1 tsp chironji (optional)
• Pinch edible camphor (optional)
• 120g whole wheat flour
• ⅜ tsp semolina
• ⅜ tsp oil
• ⅛ tsp salt
• Oil for frying

👩‍🍳 How to make Halwa Puri

1. Heat ghee (1 min, low-medium heat): Melt ghee in heavy-bottomed pan.
2. Add semolina (7-8 mins, low-medium heat): Add semolina and cashews, stir continuously so grains do not stick. Continue until ghee separates from grains and cashews turn golden (approximately 7-8 minutes, watch carefully).
3. Add aromatics (1 min, low heat): Mix in cardamom powder, raisins, chironji, camphor.
4. Prepare syrup (2 mins, medium heat on separate burner): Boil sugar and water together on separate burner until bubbling (approximately 2-3 minutes).
5. Combine slowly (2 mins, low heat): Pour boiling sugar syrup slowly into semolina mixture while stirring continuously. Mixture will splutter—stir carefully and thoroughly.
6. Rest (2 mins, room temp): Remove from heat, let cool slightly in pan.

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