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Chocolate Almond Halwa

I made almond flour and almond milk from scratch at home. I wanted to make something sweet out of it so I quickly looked up recipes with both these ingredients and voila! There you have your chocolate almond halwa. Super easy and quick to make. You can avoid the chocolate and add any other flavour of your choice. This is a healthier version of a regular almond halwa.

Ingredients

  • 1/2 Cup Almond Flour
  • 3 Tbsp Almond Milk
  • 2 Tbsp Cocoa Powder
  • 3 Tbsp Jaggery
  • 1/4 Cup of Water
  • 2 Tsp Clarified Butter/Ghee
  • Pinch of Saffron (Optional)
  • 1/2 Tbsp Almond Shavings for Garnish

Preparation

Prep: 5 minutes
Cooking: 10 minutes

  1. In a pan, heat ghee on low flame. Add jaggery, water, and saffron (optional). Cook this for at least 4-5 minutes or till the jaggery dissolves in the mixture.
  2. Add almond flour, cocoa powder, and almond milk. Mix this till the milk gets well absorbed in the flour mixture.
  3. After 3-4 minutes of constant stirring on low flame, you will see the mixture is slowly coming together and not sticking to the pan anymore. This is when you turn off the flame and transfer the mixture into a bowl.
  4. Garnish with almond shavings and serve hot. Enjoy!

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Aahuti Sejpal

Originally from Mumbai, I moved to Madrid in January 2019 for my graduate studies. It has been one year and five months since I am in Madrid and stuck in lockdown for two months due to COVID-19. Rather than feeling awful about this situation, I took it positively by utilizing this time to do what I have been yearning to do since the past few years - cooking! Having grown up watching Nigella Lawson and Master Chef, I have had some serious interest in cooking. To the extent that I was almost on the verge of enrolling myself in a culinary school in Paris when I was 18. For several reasons I haven’t experimented as much in the kitchen as I would have liked, until now. I decided to put on my chef’s hat on day 1 of #MadridLockdown and go all out with my amateur cooking experiments. So here I am, still in lockdown, penning down my recipes for all those who want to be the master chef of their own house.