Sweet, inviting, and made for sharing, custard powder halwa recipe | how to prepare custard halwa is a vegetarian Indian dessert made with sugar, custard powder, and water in about 10 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 5 minutes
- Cook time: 5 minutes
- Total time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 6 Servings
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup custard powder (vanilla flavoured (or any flavour of your choice))
- 1 cup water
- 2 tbsp ghee / clarified butter
- 1 tbsp saffron water / kesar water
- 5 cashew (chopped)
Method
- firstly, in a large bowl take 1 cup sugar and ½ cup custard powder.
- add in 1 cup water and whisk well.
- make sure there are no lumps and sugar dissolved completely. keep aside.
- now heat 2 tbsp ghee in a large kadai and roast 5 chopped cashews.
- now pour prepared sugar-custard mixture stirring continuously, keeping flame on low else lumps might form.
- also pour 1 tbsp of kesar water / saffron water.
- stir continuously till the mixture thickens and starts to separate from pan.
- further, stir till the mixture turns glossy and translucent.
- transfer the custard halwa into small bowl or into greased tray like prepared in corn flour halwa.
- rest for 30 minutes or till it cools slightly.
- finally, unmould onto a plate and serve custard powder halwa recipe garnished with cashew.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.
