Papaya-Lemon Halwa

This one is the best of the halwas that ive ever made. Making a halwa is a difficult task and it makes our kitchen too messy and utensils hard to clean. But i consider these as the minor sacrifices I  make to enjoy its final outcome. I usually make it in bulk quantities and store it in the refrigerator to  eat it whenever i feel like eating. But this time i had only 1 small ripe papaya and the quantity that i got from it was very less. Enjoyed every bit.

Ingredients

Papaya - 1 no
Lemon juice- half a lemon
Sugar - 5 tbsp for medium sweet Papaya (depends on sweetness of Papaya)
Cardamom (Elakka) powder - 1/4 tsp
Ghee - 2 tbsp
Maida - 1/4 tsp
Cashewnuts - 4 nos

DIRECTIONS

Cut and clean the papaya into small pieces and make a fine pulp of it by using a blender(mixer).
Take a pan and heat it for some time.
Mix the papaya pulp, lemon juice and sugar in the hot pan.
Keep stirring the mixture continuously.In the meantime, add water to maida to make a liquid paste.
After stirring the mixture in the pan for 5 mins, add the maida paste to it.
This help in thickening the mixture to desired level.
Add ghee and cardamom powder to the mixture once it starts getting thick.
Take out the mixture from the pan and spread it onto a flat vessel making a 2 inch thickness of the mixture.
Cool and cut the halwa into pieces as desired.