Karachi Halwa is a traditional sweet dish from Bombay and made of Cornstarch (Araroot) and very popular recipe in countries like Pakistan, Afganistan and some parts of India too. Karachi Halwa step by step recipe instructions, ingredients and photos. 

Karachi Halwa or Bombay Karachi Halwa has a Jelly like texture which is delicious, soft, but slight chewy in nature and dry fruits give it a wonderful ‘Bite’.

I would be honest with you guys, this is not the kind of your ‘Everyday Sweet’ as it requires lots of labour in the making. You would literally end up building your muscles stirring the delicacy till it reaches the final stage. But since the results are so phenomenal, hence you might love to try it for any festivity like Eid, Ramadan or Diwali.

Let me share my personal experience when I first tried cooking this at home. I used a normal ‘Wok’ and this was my biggest mistake!

So after a continuous stirring process, when the mixture started ‘Thickening’ it was a real challenge, as it became so ‘Sticky’ that it was nearly impossible to scratch off the sides of wok. This ended up with a huge messy mixture of cooked cornstarch with lumps. No points for guessing that it was of no use.

So, the very first thing I learnt was -

"Always use a good quality non stick pan or wok for making Karachi Halwa and not the ordinary one that you use for your everyday cooking.........!!!"

For the second trial I revised my recipe and this time my Karachi Halwa checked all the right notes. It was soft and beautiful pieces of spongy jelly sweet that you see in above pics. Actually the recipe to make this Karachi Halwa is simple, just cooking cornstarch in sugar syrup till it reaches ‘Halwa’ consistency. But here comes the ‘Tricky’ part….to make it look GLOSSY…!!! If you miss on this, your halwa won’t have a shine (Which is a character of Karachi Halwa) though would taste good. So here I have added all those points in this recipe that would definitely help you out, especially if you are trying it for the first time.

To make this Halwa, you can use any colour like yellow, green, red….though I would strongly suggest to use natural food extracts. Also use your choice of dry fruits like almonds, cashews or pista chews.

Over to the recipe now….!

You might also love to try Aate Ka Halwa Recipe which is my personal favorite.