Simple and easy Bombay halwa / Bombay karachi halwa / Bombay corn flour halwa / Corn flour halwa

Ingredients

For Corn Flour Solution
• 2 cup corn flour
• 6 cup water for dissolving corn flour

For Sugar Solution
• 2 cup sugar
• 1 cup water for dissolving sugar
• 1 tbsp lemon juice

Other Ingredients
• ¼ cup ghee
• 1 tsp cardamom powder
• few drops of green food colour
• few drops of orange food colour
• few drops of yellow food colour
• 1 tbsp grated almonds
• 1 tbsp grated cashews
• 1 tbsp grated pista

Method
• First take corn flour in a mixing bowl. Add water.

• Mix very well with a wired whisk. There should be no lumps. Keep aside.

• Grease the plates on the bottom and sides with some ghee. Keep aside.

• In a heavy kadai take sugar . add water.

• Keep the flame to medium-low and begin stirring the solution, so that the sugar solution dissolves. Then reduce the flame to a low or sim. Keep the flame to its lowest.

• Let the sugar solution come to a boil. Add lemon juice.

• Now take the corn starch solution and stir it again as the corn starch settles down at the bottom, so you have to mix everything again before you add in the sugar syrup.

• Add a part of the corn flour solution mix and stir very well.

• Continue to mix and stir at non stop on a low flame.

• The corn flour will begin to become sticky and thicken. Keep on stirring.

• Stir and mix till the entire mixture thickens.

• Once the entire mixture thickens, add cardamom powder, grated almonds, cashews and pista mix well.

• add ¼ cup ghee in two to three parts.

• As soon as you add ghee, mix well so that all of the ghee is incorporated in the corn flour mixture.

• All of the ghee should be mixed well. stir and mix again and cook for 1 to 2 minutes stirring often, till the mixture gathers in one mass. By this time the mixture must have already left the sides of the kadai or pan. You will also see ghee releasing from the sides.

• Once the mixture gather in one mass and has a translucent appearance, switch off the flame .

• If you make only one colour halwa means you can add food colour at this time and mix well.

• But I will make four colour halwa. So I split four equal parts and add green, orange, yellow and one is without food colour (plain white colour).

• Quickly add the halwa mixture in the greased plate.

• Begin to spread the halwa mixture in the plate. then level with a spatula. level neatly.

• Allow to cool at room temperature.

• Once cooled, remove the karachi halwa. then slice it in squares.

• Serve karachi halwa as a festival sweet or an after meal sweet. Leftover can be stored in an air tight box and then refrigerated.