Moong Halwa - Golden Gram Pudding

Ingredients:

* Moong dal/Golden gram – 1 cup
* Almonds – 1 1/4 cup
* Sugar – 2 1/4 cup (adjust to taste)
* Ghee – 1/4 cup
* Saffron – 1 pinch
* Cardamom – 4 count
* 2% Milk – 1 cup

Method of Preparation:

1. Soak moong dal in water for 3 hours and almonds in boiling water for 2 hours.
2. Pressure cook the moong dal with little water. Alternatively you can boil 1 1/2 cups of water and add soaked moongdal and cook till the dal gets mashed. While cooking, add water if necessary.
3. Peel the skin off the almonds and grind it by adding milk little by little till they become a fine paste.
4. Grind the cooked moong dal separately to a fine paste.
5. In a deep bottomed vessel, add sugar and little water till the sugar gets wet and heat it.
6. When the sugar syrup starts boiling and beginning to become viscous, add the almond paste, followed by moong dal paste.
7. Add 1/2 cup of milk and keep on stirring to avoid lumps.
8. Add ghee and keep stirring. soak saffron in a tbsp of milk.
9. After 5 to 10 mins, add the saffron and cardamon and keep stirring till it becomes a smooth paste. It will be shiny.
10. Turn off the stove and keep stirring for 5 mins.
11. Transfer it to a serving bowl.
12. You can also transfer it to a flat greased tray and leave it overnight.
13. Cut it into your desired shape.

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