{"id":512,"date":"2012-02-12T10:07:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T10:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indiatastes.com\/Recipes\/?p=512"},"modified":"2012-02-12T10:07:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T10:07:16","slug":"asoka-halwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/divine.virtualspace247.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/12\/asoka-halwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Asoka Halwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>moong dal &#8211; 1 cup, wheat flour &#8211; 1 cup, sugar &#8211; 11\/2 cup, kesari powder &#8211; a pinch, ghee &#8211; 1 cup, cardomoms &#8211; 6, cashewnuts &#8211; 10, essence as required, cashew bits and cherry bits &#8211; 2 tsp each<br \/>\nAdd 1\/2 cup water to 1 cup moong dal and cook in pressure cooker until it becomes soft.To 1 cup wheat flour, add 1\/2 cup waterand make into a thick liquid.Heat this liquid in a fry pan and stir for a while.Mash the cooked moong dal and add it to the boiling liquid.When everything is mixed and well cooked, add sugar and stir well.Add 1\/2 cup of ghee and keep stirring.When it is almost over add cardomoms.Roast cashews in 1 tsp ghee and add it to the mix. Add the remaining ghee and stir.<br \/>\nIt should become a non sticky paste but not too hard.At this stage remove the pan from the stove.Pour this mix on a large plate greaseed with ghee.Spred the cashew and cheery bits on the top surface of the halwa. Then cut this into diamonds by drawing parallellines with a knife<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>moong dal &#8211; 1 cup, wheat flour &#8211; 1 cup, sugar &#8211; 11\/2 cup, kesari powder &#8211; a pinch, ghee &#8211; 1 cup, cardomoms &#8211; 6, cashewnuts &#8211; 10, essence as required, cashew bits and cherry bits &#8211; 2 tsp <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/divine.virtualspace247.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/12\/asoka-halwa\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[30,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divine.virtualspace247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/divine.virtualspace247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/divine.virtualspace247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divine.virtualspace247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divine.virtualspace247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/divine.virtualspace247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divine.virtualspace247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divine.virtualspace247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divine.virtualspace247.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}