This is an ultimate tutorial for making Bombay Karachi Halwa with its signature soft, chewy, and stretchy texture! This is a sweet made of simple ingredients but there is surely a technique to get the perfect texture! So, if you want to make Halwai style Karachi Halwa in your kitchen, you are in the right place!
How to make Perfect Stretchy Halwai Style Bombay Karachi Halwa at home-Watermelon Halwa
Description
Karachi Halwa is an extremely popular Indian sweet especially loved during major Indian festivals like Diwali. Unlike other types of Halwas, this Halwa has a unique gelatinous and stretchy texture that is achieved upon slowly cooking cornflour and sugar. It is also studded with nuts and covered in ghee that adds to its richness!
Here I made karachi halwa with fresh watermelon juice, with no artificial flavors or colors added! If you want to make plain Bombay Karachi Halwa the technique is the same! Lets make The Best Bombay Karachi Halwa together!
Ingredients
Instructions
- Blend watermelon pieces and strain the juice. We need 2 cups of watermelon juice. If it is not 2 cups, make it up to 2 cups with water
- Add 1/2 cup water to the corn starch to make a lump free slurry
- Add 1 cup watermelon juice to a non-stick pot set on medium heat
- Add sugar and a pinch of salt
- Add lime juice and green cardamom powder (optional)
- Stir till all the sugar dissolves
- Reduce the heat of the pot to as low as possible and add the other cup of watermelon juice
- Add in the corn starch slurry through a strainer into the pot
- Start stirring on low heat
- It should take approximately an hour to make karachi halwa perfectly (refer to the video recipe to see all the stages of cooking)
- Add chopped nuts
- Once its done, pour the halwa into a flat bowl greased with ghee
- Let the halwa solidify at room temperature for 2-3 hrs
Video
Notes
- The ingredient measurements in the recipe are very important
- Corn starch thickens in 5 min, but prolonged cooking of cornstarch in sugar is what gives this halwa its unique stretchy texture! This recipe takes almost an hour to cook and get the texture right
- Use non stick pot to make this recipe, so that the corn starch does stick too much to the walls of the pot
- Try not to reduce the amount of sugar, I tried doing this and the texture was more like thick jello.
Bombay Karachi Halwa, Karachi Halwa, Watermelon Halwa, Stretchy Karachi Halwa, How to make perfect bombay karachi halwa at home, how to make chewy karachi halwa, bombay karachi halwa recipe, best karachi halwa recipe, perfect bombay karachi halwa recipe, Corn Flour Halwa, Rubber Halwa, how to make karachi Halwa chewy, watermelon recipe, watermelon corn flour halwa, bombay karachi halwa with watermelon juice, easy karachi halwa recipe, custard powder halwa, watermelon recipes
