Kachche Singhara (Fresh Water Chestnuts) Halwa/Pudding

• Servings: 3-4
• Preparation time: 10-12 minutes.
• Frying time: 12-13 minutes.
• Cooking time: 3-4 minutes.
• Total time: 29 minutes

About a month ago, a Bullock cart seen on the road near our society, opposite to D Mart, when  we went down to see off our family friends. I was so surprised to see bullock cart on road of Navi Mumbai. The cart vendor selling fruits. There was another Thelawala (cart) selling fresh singhara (water chestnut). I purchased  a bag full of singhara. since that day we keep eating  singhara throughout season and always get huge bag full of singhara from near by vegetables market and decided to upload some recipe within season from this aquatic vegetable which grows underwater in mud.

We eat them raw, stir fried, boiled, add them to  salad and like today’s  recipe “Fresh Singhara (Fresh Water Chestnuts) Halwa/Pudding”. A lovely aroma wafted in my kitchen.

Do you know fresh water chestnut reduces stress, uplift mood, improves the quality of sleep and gives us overall wellness!!

Ingredients:

• Fresh Singhara (Fresh Water Chestnuts): 500gm.
• Water: 1/2 cup.
• Sugar: 80-100gm.
• Ghee: 20 gm.
• Green cardamom: 5-6 no.
• Dry fruits(cashew nuts, pistachio, almond): as per your taste

Preparation:

1. Peel off water chestnuts(singhara), grind them to paste with help of little quantity of water, keep aside.
2. Chop/slice dry fruits, keep aside.
3. Crush green cardamom, and keep aside.

Method:

1. Heat ghee in a  nonstick pan; add ground singhara, continue  to fry for 8-9 of minutes on high flame or till it gets light pink in colour.
2. Lower the flame; add sugar, continue to cook for a minute , continue to stir  to avoid the lump, increase to medium flame. Cook until water evaporated and it reaches to desire consistency (halwa consistency). Add cardamom powder and dry fruits.
3. Put off the flame,  decorate with sliced dry fruits “Kachche Singhara (Fresh Water Chestnuts) Halwa/Pudding” is ready to serve.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

Kachche Singhara (Fresh Water Chestnuts) Halwa/Pudding by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.