RICE HALWA
Ingredients :Raw rice ½ kg.
Coconut ( grated ) 12 cups
Jaggery 2 kgs
Ghee or dalda ( hydrogennerated oil) ¼ kg.
Coconut cut into all pieces 1 cup
Powdered dry ginger ½ tsp
Cumin seed, powdered ¼ tsp.

Method of preparation

Soak the rice for 12 hours, wash and drain. By adding water little by little grind the rice till soft. Add 4 bottles of water to it and strain through a coarse cloth. Pour 2 bottles of water to the grated coconut, take the milk and strain, and add to the above batter. Melt the jaggery with one bottle of water and strain and add this also to the mixture. Pour these into a caldron, keep it on fire and stir continuously. As it thickens add the ghee or dalda and keep on stirring. Last of all, add 2/3 of the coconut pieces, dry ginger and cumin seed powder. When halwa is ready, pour into a greased dish and spread the remaining coconut pieces on the top .