BADAM HALWA 
Badam halwa is a delicious desert made with pureed almonds, butter/ ghee (clarified butter), sugar and saffron. The delicate flavor of saffron gives rich finish and beautiful pale yellow color to the halwa.
Ingredients
Badam / Almond medium slices
: 1 cup
Sugar
: 1 - 1 1/2 cup
Milk
: 1 cup
Roasted Nuts for garnish.
Ghee
: 2 tsp
Saffron threads + Milk 2 tbsp
: 4- 5
Hot water for blanching almonds
:
Method
- Micro 1 cup of water for 1 min. Soak almonds in it for 10 mins. Peel off the skin. Heat the milk for saffron for 1/2 min.
- First run the almonds in the mixie, when you get the coarse powder, remove a tsp and grind the rest with milk to a smooth paste.
- In a microwave safe bowl, heat the ghee and roast the nuts for 1 min on micro. Remove the nuts and transfer the almond paste, milk along with the soaked saffron and sugar to the same bowl. Add the coarse almond power to the same bowl
- Micro for 10 mins, check in intervals of 2 - 4 minutes and keep stirring. You will get a good thick consistency which is more of a barfi and between a halwa
- Finally mix in the roasted nuts.