From my childhood, I have a strong aversion to apple. No matter how much I tried, I cannot get myself to like this fruit. My parents did everything they could to make me eat this. Even now, whenever we talk to them, they tell me to eat it. My hubby has a entirely different story. He has no problem in eating this, but he wants someone to cut it into pieces and give him. He promptly brings 4-5 apples once in a month and keeps them in fridge. On the first day, in full enthusiasm, he neatly cuts and eats one. Thats it. Remaining apples just sit there begging to be eaten. I don’t know how many times this has repeated. I have decided now to reduce such wastage as much as possible(yeah..I do think of making some new year resolutions, but whether I follow them or not is another story).
Yesterday when I saw 5 beautiful golden apples in the fridge, I was really irritated. We were just back from shopping and I had to cook for dinner. As usual, I wanted to make something new. So when I was going through my recipe books, I saw a recipe for apple burfi. One of the main ingredients was khova. I never buy khova unless I have preplanned something with it (which has never happened so far) and I was out of milk (with which I could have made it at home). Then there was a step to create one string sugar syrup, which is not my cup of tea. So I decided to take a chance and change the recipe completely.
I followed my mom’s bottle gourd burfi recipe, which happens to be my absolute favorite. I had very less hopes that it would work out. But it turned out great. It was more or less like the halwas available in India. The entire batch was gone within minutes. I think I am going to buy apples hereafter to make this halwa 
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Ingredients:
2 cups grated apples (about 3-4 apples)
1 cup sugar
1 tbl spn ghee (this is just used for aroma, can be omitted if desired)
2 tbl spn chopped or coarsely powdered almonds
1/2 tea spn cardamom powder
Method:
Peel the apples and grate them.
Heat ghee in a thick bottomed (or non stick) pan. Add the grated apple and fry on a medium flame, till all the water is evaporated and it looks like cooked. It takes about 10mins or so.
Now add the sugar. Actually at this step, the apple should be measured and equal volume of sugar should be added.
Cook, mixing occasionally, till the mixture thickens and all the sugar is mixed well with apples. Towards the end, you need to mix continuously, otherwise it sticks to bottom of the pan and gets burnt.
Add the chopped or coarsely powdered almonds and mix it.
When it looks very dry, add cardamom powder, mix .
Transfer the contents on a greased(with ghee) plate or cutting board. I just used a wax paper. Flatten it with a rolling pin. To avoid sticking to rolling pin, grease it with some ghee.
Cut it into squares. Let it cool down a bit and then take out the pieces and press the ends to the board to get even shapes.
Makes about 15-20 halwas
Preparation time : 40mins
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Halwa turned out very good….simple and delicious recipe.
Thank you!
Hi,
This recipe has become my new favourite. Its very easy that i make it more than once in a month. Thank you. BTW i added some candied papaya, which comes in different colors and it looked very cool
Looks really good.
Divya, WHere did you find candid papaya?
Thanks for the recipe, I need to try this, I was wondering whether we can use applesauce instead of grated apple for this recipe, let me know. Thanks again I love this site and even have told my friends & family about this wonderful site
Sorry, I don’t know
I hate apple too but love apple pie, apple tart, pancake, now this halwa and a kheer I make with chopped apple and milk. Thanks for sharing this. I publish a lot of cookbooks, including the bestseller Ishtann and love what u post. All the very best dear.
hi shilpa,
u are an “Awesome chef”.
all ur recipes are delicious& perfecto.
tried ur apple halwa and my little ones loved it.
thank u.
Hi Shilpa,
surely want to try this..
what is the shelf life??
and should it be refrigerated?
2-3 days in refrigerator.
Dear shilpa,
Thanks again for a wonderful sweet:) Keep up the good work!!GOD bless
Tried this one today, which turned out awesome!! Me and my hubby both loved it as it has a unique taste of sourness of apple..(we both are sweet lovers, thats a diff thing;) ) Thanks for the recipe.. I made it few mins before and now i can see only 3 remaining in my plate
Dear Shilpa,
Thanks for such an easy and wonderful recipe! I’m a CIT (cook-in-training) and this was my first attempt at an Indian sweet. I thought I’d try and make something for Ugadi and I was surprised at how easy it was to make this and how yummy it turned out to be
I will definitely keep trying more of your recipes!
I m just a beginner in cooking so i try to made halwa with dis recipe but it become caramel brown in color as well as too sweet inspite of adding less suger in comparision to apple because of this reason i m not able to shape it in form of barfi
hmmm..this looks delicious ! I will try it this week…I am living in India and started cooking a various range of dishes but my dessert list still needs some overhauling !
Thanks for sharing this nice recipe !
Hi shilpa, tried this recipe, the taste was very good. No body could guess it as an apple halwa, everyone thot it as a bottle gourd halwa. Keepup the good job of posting innovative ideas of cookin..
I am a big fan of your food blogs… I have tried my own version of different dishes, that you have posted, but Apple halwa????? really, will it taste good enough, and not BABY FOOD?? let me try with 2 allples, first… I’ll upload the experience.