Sweet and salty cooked sooji

Wheat semolina (sooji) and semolina from other cereals and pulses are used to prepare several Indian traditional foods like upmav (salty cooked sooji), halwa (sweet cooked sooji, suji or kesri bath, or kesari bhath), laadu, pani puri, rawa idli and dosa, etc. Among the semolina-based foods, upmav is a ready-to-eat salty sooji popular in South India. The product halwa is a ready-to-eat confectionery possessing a mild sweet taste (Figure 4.2.1). The other names of halwa are halva, halua, halvah, suji, sooji ka halwa, atte Ka halwa and mohan bhog.