^ I wish I could tell you how much but to be honest with you, I have never cooked sooji halwa so have no idea about it...Well maybe you can try an online recipe(I believe most of them work fine).
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Afia, are you offering help in making halwa or finding a biwi?. I am more interested in halwa.
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my offer of help was about halwa only ....later is not my field :)
anyway you got the answer ....u need to add milk ....!
how much...??? it depends on your taste
i usually add 1 cup in half cup of suji ....but there are some in my family who like more milk ....so for them its 2 n half cups of milk for half cup of suji .....!
suji , ghee , n sugar should be in equial amount ....plus i don't add sheera to suji ....i bhooonify suji ....add sugar n bhoonify again a bit ...then add very hot water (say half cup or so)
then add milk , a little at a time
when all desired ampount of milk is added ....just cook till its dried up ....n its ready !
hope it helps :)
Update on Halwa
I tried it out over the weekend and these are the observations I made.
2:1 ratio of sugar to sooji is appropriate as suggested by FF. I put 1:1 and it wasn't as sweet as the Halwaaee wala halwa.
I used cooking butter sticks and it smelled delicious - just like halwaee's.
That's about it. I followed FF's recipie and it turned out very good. I also used orange food coloring.
I think I gained a couple of pounds in the past two days. :)