Carrot Halwa/Gajar Ka Halwa
Carrot halwa/Gajar ka Halwa is an indulgent confection of carrots, milk, sugar and some butter, all cooked together and finally flavoured with cardamom.
Servings: 4 to 5
Ingredients
- ½ kg carrots
- 1 inch cube unsalted butter or 1 Tablespoon Ghee
- 10 to 15 unsalted Cashews
- 500 ml whole milk
- ¾ cup sugar
- Pinch of saffron strands
- 3 green cardamoms remove skin and powder
- 1 teaspoon shredded almonds for garnish
Instructions
- Wash, peel and grate the carrots to thick strands manually or in a food processor.
- Heat butter in a wide skillet on medium heat and fry the cashews till golden brown, remove and keep it aside.
- Add grated carrot into the same pan and sauté for about 5 min till the raw smell vanishes.
- Now add milk to this and allow it to boil till the milk reduces to half the quantity. This may take about 15 minutes.
- To this add sugar and saffron strands to it and let it reduce till the oil leaves the sides of the pan. This will take another 15 minutes.
- Turn off the heat, sprinkle cardamom powder and mix well. Garnish with fried cashews, shredded almonds and serve hot.