While there are several beliefs attached to each festival and the way it is celebrated, fasting on festive days remains near-permanent and requires a person to eat either fruits or selective meals that are acceptable according to their holy scriptures and family traditions. These types of foods are usually bereft of salt and other common ingredients and among them, the Rajgira Halwa Recipe is a pretty ideal meal choice favored by multiple households.
Popularly prepared during the nine days of Navratri and on the days of Ekadashi, the Rajgira Halwa is a sweet dessert that contains plenty of nutrition and enough calories to both curb your hunger for the most part of your day while providing you with ample energy. It’s rich in calcium aside from also containing Vitamin C, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, and iron which collectively reduces the risk of osteoporosis and serves as a source of antioxidant that is known to boost health.
Rajgira Halwa Recipe
Let’s now quickly learn about the required ingredients and steps to prepare this amazingly advantageous and deliciously sweet meal.
Quick Stats
- Prep Time – 10 minutes
- Cooking Time – 30 minutes
- Serving – 4 serving
Ingredients
- Half a Litre of Cow Milk
- 500gm Rajgira Flour (Amaranth Flour)
- Three cups Cow Ghee
- Two cups Sugar
- One cup Grated Coconut
- One cup Whole Almonds
- One cup split Cashew pieces
- One cup Dry Raisins
- One cup sliced Dry Coconut
- Half cup peeled Cardamom
- One tsp Cardamom Powder
Method To Prepare
- Begin by taking a wide non-stick pan and adding cow ghee into it to be heated over medium flame.
- Put the Rajgira flour (Amaranth Flour) into the pan and mix it well with the ghee. Keep stirring continuously so that the flour doesn’t burn and start sticking to the pan.
- Lower the flame before adding sugar and again mix it well on medium flame so until the sugar melts and melds with the mixture.
- Proceed to add milk and coconut powder to be stirred until you see the ghee floating on the milk which should evaporate in a few minutes.
- Once you notice the Rajgira mixture becoming semi-solid or less loose, again add milk along with cardamom powder and peeled cardamom pieces to be stirred for another couple of minutes.
- Post properly stirring when the mixtures look mildly less light in color and the milk is evaporated, remove the heat to add almonds, cashew pieces, and dry raisin. Mix them well.
- Add a few of the above mentioned dry fruits on top for aesthetic purposes before serving and serve it hot.
Nutritional Value
- Calories – 280 k.cal
- Carbohydrates – 30 g
- Protein – 4 g
- Fat – 19 g
- Sodium – 230 mg
- Sugar – 21 g
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Final Words
Furthermore, Rajgira helps make your hair thicker and strong besides also promoting better eye-sight and improving the complexion of your face when consumed regularly. Being easy to digest because it has lysine, it also adds up to be a healthy choice for those who are dieting. Lastly, it’s named in Greek means ‘everlasting’ or ‘immortal’, because it’s just all that supremely beneficial!
