ALBAI (RICE HALWA)

Ingredients:

• 2 coconuts (only whites grated)
• 1 cup white rice
• ¼ teaspoon cardamom powder
• sugar to taste

Method:

• Soak rice for 8 hours and grind fine.
• Separately grind the coconut and sieve the coconut milk.
• Mix 2 cups of water with the ground rice and sieve it.
• The sieved rice is mixed with the coconut milk.
• Add sugar and cardamom powder.
• Keep stirring on medium flame with wooden ladle constantly.
• Keep adding water little at a time.
• The mixture has to cook on slow flame (typically how it is done for any halwa).
• This process should take between 30-45 minutes.
• Test the halwa by dropping a small piece into a cup of water.
• If the halwa holds firm and does not dissipate, then pourthe mixture into a greased plate.
• Let it cool, cut into pieces for serving.