This banana halwa is one of the common sweet dish prepared in goa. Its a very simple n tasty sweet dish. It can be prepared by any ripe bananas, but here we prepare with a local breed of big bananas called as 'mandoli keli'. It tastes best when prepared using this bananas. I have posted a pic of those special bananas below.
INGREDIENTS:
Serves :5-6
3-4 ripe bananas(Mandoli bananas preferred)
1/2 cup sugar
5-7 cloves
1 tea spoon cardoman powder
3 cups water
3 table spoon desi ghee or normal ghee
METHOD:
Peel the ripe bananas and slice them , so that round shapes pieces are formed with 1/2 cm thickness.
Take a kadai and add ghee ot it. Desi ghee is prefered as it gives a nice taste and aroma to the dish.When it becomes hot add the cloves to it . Cloves are added as they give a nice flavour to this dish, they go well with banana taste.After 1 min add the banana pieces and cook them in ghee for 4-5 mins.Stir again and again in middle so that they do not stick to the pan or burn.
Simultaneously take a vessel and add water and sugar to it. Cook the mixture till the sugar dissolves completely in it and forms a medium consistency sugat syrup.
When this banana pieces are cooked a bit in ghee add the sugar syrup and let them cook in it. After some 5 mins the banana pieces will absorb it and become soft.
Check the sweetness, if its less sweet more sugar can be added now. Do not allow the sugar syrup to dry up completely. Some of it must remain so that the halwa tasts good.I have shown a pic below to show the sugar syrup amount and consistency.
When the bananas are cooked add cardoman powder and remove from flame.
Serve hot or cold.
Serves :5-6Preparation Time:15 mins
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