Egg Halwa

Ingredients

• • Egg yolks - 8
• • Sugar - 1 ½ cups
• • Ghee - 1 cup
• • Almonds - ½ cup
• • Cardamom powder - ¼ teaspoon
• • Ginger powder (dry) - ¼ teaspoon
• • Saffron - a pinch

Method

• 1. Separate egg yolks.
• 2. Whip them using a clean bowl and beater.
• 3. Mix sugar with ½ cup of water, in a heavy vessel.
• 4. Heat till sugar dissolves completely.
• 5. Remove from fire and allow it to cool.
• 6. Soak almonds in hot water for half an hour.
• 7. Remove the outer skin.
• 8. Wipe them dry and fry it in hot ghee till golden brown.
• 9. Grind it into paste.
• 10. Mix sugar syrup, ground almonds, beaten egg yolks, spice powders and saffron (dissolve saffron in warm milk).
• 11. Mix it with cold ghee.
• 12. Heat this in a pan stirring constantly, in medium flame.
• 13. When mixture reached halwa consistency (or when ghee separates) remove from fire.
• 14. Strain off excess ghee.
• 15. Serve cold.