Wheat Halva (Goduma Halva)

Ingredients:

1. Chamba wheat - 1 cup
2. Sugar - 2.5 cups
3. Ghee - 2 cups
4. Saffron - 2 pinches
5. Almonds - 7 nos

Procedure:

• Wash and soak chemba wheat overnight
• Next day after soaking, put 1/2 cup of water and grind the wheat. Extract the milk and strain it. Take this extract 4 times by using 1 cup of water each time (Total is 4.5 cups of wheat milk)
• Cover and keep it aside
• Allow this mixture to ferment for another 12 hours
• The wheat flour sediments/settles down at the bottom.
• Strain the top layer of the water alone and boil in a pan
• Allow it to simmer. Now add the sugar and make it to a single thread consistency
• Lower the flame. Now add the wheat milk sediment and stir quickly to avoid lumps
• Now keep stirring at a medium temperature for 30 minutes
• When the wheat milk is cooked to a glossy and thick consistency, add 1/2 cup of ghee and keep stirring
• Now add 1/2 teaspoon of halva coloring (optional) and stir
• Keep adding the remainder ghee in 1/2 cup measurements every 10 minutes. Keep stirring through the process of adding ghee (Total time of halva preperation is 1.5 hours)
• Now add saffron, almond scrapings and stir
• Remove from fire and transfer to a vessel
• If the halva is cooked to the correct consistency, 1 cup ghee will float on top of halva