Kada Prashad Recipe

• Take 1 cup of sugar in a saucepan or pot. add 3 cups water. Use a saucepan that has a handle as it helps to add sugar solution to the atta mixture in the later part of the recipe.
• Keep the pan on the stovetop on a medium-low to medium flame.
• Stir the solution so that all the sugar dissolves.
• Heat this sugar solution until it begins boiling.
• Once the sugar solution boils, then switch off the flame.

frying wheat flour for kada prashad

• Meanwhile when you keep the sugar solution to boil, also place a heavy bottomed kadai or pan on another stovetop on a low flame.
• Add 1 cup ghee. let the entire ghee melt.
• Then add whole wheat flour.
• Stir and mix the whole wheat flour (atta) with the ghee.
• Mix very well to get a mixture without lumps.
• On a low flame begin to fry the whole wheat flour in ghee.
• Fry the atta stirring non-stop.
• The color of the flour will change as you keep on stirring and cooking it. Keep on stirring the flour to ensure even browning.
• The atta or whole wheat flour should have a shade of dark golden color and should have a nutty fragrance.

making kada prashad

• When the atta turns to a dark golden color, add the sugar solution in two parts. Be very careful as the mixture bubbles and splutters a lot.
• Mix and stir very well.
• Then add the second part of the hot sugar solution. continue to mix very well.
• Now cook the kada prashad stirring non-stop.
• The mixture will thicken as it gets cooked.
• The halwa will also start releasing ghee.
• Continue to stir non-stop and cook till the whole mixture becomes one mass and leaves the sides of the pan.
• The consistency of the kada prasad will also change as well as the color.
• When the kada prashad has a thick pudding-like consistency, then switch off the flame.
• Serve kada prashad hot or warm.