Tirunelveli Halwa Recipe (2024)

Published: Jan 30, 2023 | Last Updated On: Jan 30, 2023 by Aarthi

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One of the popular halwa recipe made using wheat flour is called as tirunelveli halwa recipe or godumai halwa recipe. The halwa is made using wheat, sugar and ghee.

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1.About Tirunelveli Halwa Recipe

2.Tirunelveli Halwa Ingredients

3.Video for Tirunelveli Halwa Recipe

4.📖 Recipe Card

5.Tirunelveli Halwa Recipe | Godumai Halwa Recipe | Wheat Halwa Recipe

6.Tirunelveli Halwa Recipe with Step by Step Pictures

Tirunelveli Halwa Recipe

This halwa was on my to do list for ages. Finally me and mom made it couple days back and it was a huge hit. I shared it on my youtube channel and it was pretty success. So i thought of sharing step wise pictures on blog too.

About Tirunelveli Halwa Recipe

Tirunelveli is famous for a sweet called, 'Iritu kadai halwa'. Tirunelveli is also known forhalwa, a sweet made of wheat, sugar and ghee. It originated during the mid-1800s at Lakshmi Vilas Stores, which still exist. The art of sweet-making spread to other parts of Tamil Nadu, such asNagercoil,SrivilliputhurandThoothukudi. Tirunelveli halwa was popularised by Irutukadai Halwa, a shop opened in 1900 which sells the sweets only during twilight.

Tirunelveli Halwa Ingredients

Wheat

In the making of tirunelveli halwa we use either wheat, wheat rava or wheat flour. The starch from the wheat is extracted and used to make halwa.

Sugar

caramelized sugar is used to achieve the colour in halwa.

Ghee

Use pure desi ghee for making this halwa. which adds to the aroma and taste.

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How to Make Tirunelveli Halwa at Home

Preparing Wheat milk

Soak wheat rava in water for 6 to 8 hours. Drain and take it in a blender, puree till smooth. Now strain this and extract as much milk as possible. Add water to the rava and extract as much milk possible. Now set this milk aside for 3 to 4 hours. Now discard the top liquid. Add 4 cup of water to the milk and mix well.

Making caramel sugar

Take 2.5 cup of sugar in a nonstick pan and add ½ cup of water to it., take ½ cup of sugar in a small sauce pan and add ¼ cup water to it. Now cook the ½ cup sugar till dark caramel is achieved.

Making tirunelveli halwa

Now pour the caramel into the sugar syrup in nonstick pan and mix well. Add the wheat milk to this and mix well. Keep cooking till it gets thick. At this point start adding ghee a spoonful at a time. Mix well. Keep cooking till ghee separates. It will take around 45 mins to 1 hour. Now add fried cashews and mix well. Serve.

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Tirunelveli Halwa Recipe | Godumai Halwa Recipe | Wheat Halwa Recipe

One of the popular halwa recipe made using wheat flour is called as tirunelveli halwa or godumai halwa. The halwa is made using wheat, sugar and ghee.

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Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour hour

Other time: 10 hours hours

Total Time: 11 hours hours 10 minutes minutes

Servings: 8 servings

Calories: 591kcal

Ingredients

▢ 1 cup Samba Wheat Rava (Broken Wheat)
▢ 3 cups Sugar
▢ 4 cups Water
▢ 1 cup Ghee
▢ ¼ cup Cashews chopped

Instructions

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Soak wheat rava in water for 6 to 8 hours. Drain and take it in a blender, puree till smooth. Now strain this and extract as much milk as possible. Add water to the rava and extract as much milk possible.
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Now set this milk aside for 3 to 4 hours. Now discard the top liquid. Add 4 cup of water to the milk and mix well.
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Take 2.5 cup of sugar in a nonstick pan and add ½ cup of water to it., take ½ cup of sugar in a small sauce pan and add ¼ cup water to it. Now cook the ½ cup sugar till dark caramel is achieved.
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Now pour the caramel into the sugar syrup in nonstick pan and mix well.
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Add the wheat milk to this and mix well.
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Keep cooking till it gets thick. At this point start adding ghee a spoonful at a time. Mix well.
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Keep cooking till ghee separates. It will take around 45 mins to 1 hour.
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Now add fried cashews and mix well.
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Serve.

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Tirunelveli Halwa Recipe with Step by Step Pictures

Soak Wheat Rava for 6 to 8 hours

drain and take it in a blender

puree till smooth

squeeze and extract as much milk as possible

set this aside for 3 to 4 hours

now take water has separated on top

discard the water

add 4 cups of fresh water to the milk

take 2.5 cup of sugar in large nonstick pan, take ½ cup sugar in small pan

add ½ cup water to large pot and ¼ cup water to small pan

now cook the sugar till caramel stage is achieved

keep cooking

now it is almost done

done

pour this into the large sugar syrup

mix well

add the milk

keep cooking

it will thicken

now start adding ghee

keep mixing

it will thicken even more

add ghee little by little and keep mixing

cook the halwa for 40 to 45 mins

add ghee

and keep cooking

now the ghee will ooze out of halwa

add fried cashews