Halwa is a dense sweet confection served as dessert in India. Here I have tried my hands on making halwa with apples. The apple halwa has a wonderful taste that you will love it

Please see the step by step instructions on how to make Apple Halwa

Step 1: Ingredients

Two Apples
Handful of Cashew nuts
5 to 6 Cardamom pods
One cup of Sugar
About half a cup of cow's ghee

Step 2: Peel and Cut Apples

Peel the apple skin and cut into pieces
Remove seeds and core from the apple pieces
The cut pieces weighed slightly more than 250 grams

Step 3: Make Apple Paste

Transfer the apple pieces to a mixer grinder and grind them to a fine paste. Do not add any water.

Step 4: Stir-fry Cashew Nuts in Ghee

Break the cashew nuts into small pieces
In a small frying pan add a drop of ghee and stir-fry the cashew nuts to golden brown
Remove from pan and keep aside

Step 5: Make Sugar Powder

Add one cup of sugar to a mixer grinder and grind to a fine powder

Step 6: Make Cardamom Powder

Break open the cardamom pods and remove the seeds
Using a mortar and pestle grind the cardamom seeds into fine powder

Step 7: Preparation Step 1

Keep a flat bottomed frying pan over low heat and add the apple paste to the pan
Add about 2 teaspoons of ghee and stir continuously till water content from apple paste evaporates and ghee oozes out from sides

Step 8: Preparation Step 2

Add the powdered sugar to apple paste in the pan and mix well
Add teaspoon of ghee at intervals and stir continuously
First the sugar will melt and form a semi liquid mix with apple paste
Keep on low flame and stir continuously so that the mix will not stick to the pan
After some time you will notice that the mix started coming out cleanly from the pan and little amount ghee is also expelled from the dish