Ingredients

• 1 kg roasted rice flour
• 750 g sugar (dark brown)
• 1½ cups water
• 1½ tsp ground cardamom
• 1 tsp ground fennel
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 100 g cashew nuts

Method

1. Put sugar into a saucepan and add the water. Bring it into boil. When the sugar syrup becomes a bit sticky, switch off the flame and add ground cardamom and fennel, then roasted rice flour little by little but constantly into the sugar mixture. Keep ½ cup of rice flour back.
2. Before you start boiling sugar syrup, spread that spare rice flour on the tray where we are going to set our Aluwa.
3. When you’ve added all rice flour and the mixture has become like a fudge, put it on the tray. Press it until flat.
4. Then mark lines on it in a diamond shape or as you like. Separate the pieces before it gets hard.

Recipe by Theja