CARROT HALWA | GAJAR KA HALWA

    A classic sweet recipe,perfect to celebrate a sweet occasion ! Well what's the occasion?  This is my 200th Post! In spite of blogging for almost 3 and 1/2 years, I just now managed to reach the 200th post.Yeah really!!

 

Ingredients

Carrot,grated	3 heaped cups
Milk	2 & 1/4 cups
Sugar	3/4 – 1 cup
Ghee	3 – 5 tblsps
cardamom/elachi powder	A pinch
Cashew	4 – 5 nos
Pistachios(optional)	4-5 nos
Salt	a pinch

 

Method:

1. Take a heavy bottomed pan(I used my pot shaped pressure cooker) and fry the grated carrots with a tablespoon of ghee till it turns pale in colour.(say 2-3 minutes)
2. Add the milk and bring to boil,cook in medium flame.
3. Cook till all the milk evaporates and the carrot gets cooked .
4. When the mixture is almost dry,add the sugar and keep on stirring.(7-10 minutes)
5. When the mixture starts thickening,add ghee,elachi,cashews and pistachios fried in ghee.Keep stirring for more 3-4 minutes.
6. When the halwa starts leaving the sides and transfer this to the serving plate. Garnish with your favourite nuts,sliced and fried in ghee!

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Notes:

Only the grating part is a tiring job,otherwise this is very easy to make. So you can try using a food processor for this grating job. You can add less ghee than mentioned. You can follow the same method and make beetroot halwa. Just replace carrot with beetroot !