Broken Wheat Halwa / Annavaram Prasadam

Annavaram is very popular for the famous temple of Lord Satyanarayana Swami and Annavaram Prasadam. The aroma, colour and the taste of this prasadam is unique. I never thought I can make this at home. The recipe which I made will not be exactly like uncomparable prasadam that we get in the temple, but I tried my best. 

This is first time I made this recipe. The taste was excellent but for the perfect colour you need to 

dry roast broken wheat and make the prasadam with just dark brown jaggery. 

Annavaram brings back very fond memories of my childhood. My parents always used to take us on pilgrimage summer vacation tours. Use to go there almost during all summer holidays and spend lot of time on hill, near the temple and the river. We specially used to love the ride on Jutka from the railways station to the temple. Used to bring lots and lots of prasadam packets back home for our friends and family. Annavaram prasadam tastes so yummy and is mouthwatering.

Ingredients

1/2 cup Broken Wheat

2 cups Water 

1/2 cup Jaggery

1/2 cup Brown Sugar

2 tablespoon of Ghee

15 Cashews

pinch of Cardamom Powder / Elaichi 

1. Dry roast broken wheat until it turns to dark brown on a low flame. (I didn't !!). Then boil it in water till it becomes very soft. Add more water if necessary. You can also pressure cook it with 2 cups of water for 3 whistles. When all the water evaporates and broken wheat becomes soft, add jaggery (+ brown sugar) . You can replace brown sugar with jaggery. Let it boil for 10 minutes and keep it aside.

2. Now in a small pan, fry cashews in ghee with a pinch of cardamom powder till golden brown and then add that to halwa.

3. Mix it well and offer to god or just have it as a dessert.