Maida Halwa

Ingredients:
Maida (all purpose flour) - 1 cup
sugar - 1 &1/2 cup (change the quantity as per your taste)
red orange food color - 2 pinches
Cashew nuts - 15-20 broken and roasted
Ghee - 2 cups
Cardamom powder --1 தசப்
METHOD:

1. Shift the maida in to a big bowl and add water to make a thin batter and add food color to this maida batter. Keep aside for some time.

2. Add little water to sugar and boil it to make a sticky syrup(add a little water to sugar don't add too much water ).

3. Add maida mixture to the sugar syrup keep stirring well. with in 6-8 min it will start getting thick.

4. Start adding the ghee to the maida and sugar syrup mixture and keep stirring. The halwa would absorb all the ghee then again add some more ghee and keep stirring,by the time you finish the ghee halwa starts to leave the sides of the pan and it will become like a ball around to your laddle.

5.Add cardamom powder and mix well.

6. Transfer it in to a greased plate and level it with a spoon and let it cool and cut in to pieces with a greased knife and garnish with roasted cashew nuts.

7. Storage life is about 1 week to 10 days.