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Badam halwa (milk sweet)

Preparation time: 15 minutes plus 8 hours setting time

Cooking time: 3 hours

Ingredients
1 kg sugar
250 g cornflour
10 ml rosewater
5 ml ground cardamom
35 ml red colouring
875 g clarified butter
100 g blanched almonds, halved
DECORATION
60 g blanched pistachios
60 g peanuts

Method:
1. Heat the sugar with 750 ml water in a saucepan. Stir to dissolve the sugar then bring to the boil. 2. Sift the cornflour into a large bowl. Stir in 2 litres of water, the rosewater, cardamom and colouring. 3. As soon as the syrup begins to boil, stir in the cornflour mixture. 4. Cook over a low heat, stirring continuously, until the mixture thickens. 5. Continue simmering over a medium/low heat, stirring frequently, for about 2 hours. 6. Add the clarified butter and simmer for another hour. 7. Add almonds to simmering mixture. Leave to cool for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally, until clarified butter comes to the surface. 8. Pour the mixture into a large, rectangular ovenproof glass dish and leave to cool and set, about 8 hours. 9. Cut into diamond shapes or squares.

Recipe From : Ideas November 01, 1997

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