Banana Halva

"This recipe is from an old “Cooking for Today Magazine”, published by Good Housekeeping in 1973. The recipe features in an section of Indian recipes. Cooling time is not included. Posted for Zaar World Tour 2005."
 
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Ready In:
30mins
Ingredients:
7
Serves:
4
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directions

  • Mash the bananas to a pulp and place in a saucepan with the sugar and water; stir over a low heat until the sugar has dissolved then boil rapidly for 5 minutes.
  • Remove pan from heat and gradually stir in the melted ghee.
  • Replace pan on the heat and stir constantly until the mixture begins to form a firm ball in the pan (about 10-15 minutes).
  • Stir in the nuts and cardamom seeds, colour with saffron if desired and turn out on to a flat dish.
  • When the mixture is cool, cut into 1 ½ inch squares.

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  1. This smells delicious while cooking! I used butter instead of ghee, and could not find saffron for coloring. I think this needs the coloring; mine was gray without it and my kids wouldn't eat it. After adding the butter, I cooked and stirred for about 20 minutes and it never got to that "firm ball" stage, yet it turned to a solid after cooling anyway. I like the cardamom with bananas. This was a different dessert for me, but I really liked the flavors. Thanks Caroline!
     
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  1. This smells delicious while cooking! I used butter instead of ghee, and could not find saffron for coloring. I think this needs the coloring; mine was gray without it and my kids wouldn't eat it. After adding the butter, I cooked and stirred for about 20 minutes and it never got to that "firm ball" stage, yet it turned to a solid after cooling anyway. I like the cardamom with bananas. This was a different dessert for me, but I really liked the flavors. Thanks Caroline!
     

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I live with my husband and 2 cats in Worcester Park; a quiet typical 1930s suburb (which no one has ever heard of!) about 12 miles South West of London. I'm a fair weather gardener and as my husband is a vegetarian I grow a few easy vegetables, such as tomatoes and peppers, mainly in containers. My husband loves growing flowers, the brighter the better, and we have a pretty garden as a result. Our cats, Araminta and Purrl, like it too! I do a lot of cooking and try to keep our diet as healthy and varied as possible. Although I work full time, I use very little in the way of pre-prepared foods. This is partly because of the limited choice of vegetarian meals, which I think are overpriced anyway; but mainly because I like to know what goes in my food! I love using the Internet for all the great ideas it gives me. Last year I participated in the Zaar World Tour (under my previous public name Caroline Blakey), which was great. Mr B and I tried lots of new foods and discovered new favourite meals. Researching recipes for the Tour was really interesting, however as I didn't have time to try them all, some were posted untested. I'm still working my way very slowly through them. To make matters worse I keep seeing other recipes I want to save and have also participated in Zaar world Tour II. So many recipes, so little time to make them! <img src="http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/kzbhansen/Banners/Animation3.gif"> My 'rules' for posting recipes are a) if I wouldn't make a particular recipe, I won't post it and b) if my husband wouldn't eat it, I won't post it. This means that all my recipes are vegetarian friendly. As you will see from the number of recipes saved in my cookbooks, I particularly enjoy making jams and chutneys; I'd say it was one of my favourite hobbies. We always have a good supply of home preserves; my friends and work colleagues are well supplied too. If we won the lottery (say £5m, as a good number) we'd like to give up work, move to the country and buy a place with a bit of land. In my dreams this would be a manor house or old vicarage, with a walled garden, an orchard where I could keep hens, a vegetable garden, etc, etc, etc! In my more realistic moments (the £1m win perhaps) I would like to run a B&B, perhaps offering Vegetarian taster weekends. Luckily it costs nothing to dream.......I’d also love more time to read, do embroidery, learn a language, see more of the countryside; and of course play on Zaar.
 
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