KOZHIKODAN HALWA

Yummy it is! Kozhikode Halwa or Sweet Meat is a speciality of Kozhikode, it’s a sweet brown red delicacy made here. The foreigners gave it the name Sweet Meat, this can be bought from the busy street named SM Street a long street serving this speciality.






KOZHIKODAN PISTA HALWA / GREEN HALWA


This is a very simplified version of the famous halwa. It has the same taste as the store bought halwa but is softer and the recipe is very simple too.


INGREDIENTS
1.5 Cup all purpose flour
4 cups of water
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup Coconut oil (Substitute with vegetable oil)
few drops of green food color
1/4 cup Pista, lightly crushed
2-3 cardamom,crushed

PREPARATION
Mix all purpose flour with water to make a thin batter(Looks like milk,little bit thicker though). Add food color. Heat this mixture in a thick bottomed vessel with continued stirring. Add sugar, when the mixture thickens. Continue stirring. When the mixture thickens again, add the cardamom powder, pista and start adding the oil, 1 tbsp at a time,continue stirring until halwa separate from the vessel, add more oil if required. Transfer to a greased pan and cut into pieces after coolin