Pine Apple Halwa:

Ingredients:

Ripe Pine Apple - 1 medium size
Sugar 1 cup
Cardamom 6-8 pods
Saffron few strands
Pistachios fistfull
Yellow food color(optional)
Pine apple essence(optional)
Ghee/melted butter 1 small cup.

Method:

Remove the outer skin of pine apple. Chop them into tiny chunks possible....without loosings its water content(maybe chop in a deep plate) or better never try in damaged fruit.

In a pan, roast saffron and then tap it with back of your spoon.

In the same pan add ghee, followed by cardamom seeds(remove the skin of cardamom and semi-crush it, before adding)

Now add sugar and 1/2 cup of water. (One can add yellow food color and pine apple essence to this sugar syrup.)Let it boil. When it comes to pearly consistency add pine apple chunks. Cover and cook over medium heat.

When pine apple is cooked and appears in glassy color.....remove the lid and cook over high heat. Obviously stirring constantly. Let it loose all its water content by the way.

When it comes to 'Halwa Consisteny' Run few spoons of ghee over it.

Decorate it with roasted pistachios or ghee fried pista nuts. Serve chilled.