Carrot Halwa | Gajar Ka Halwa - Holi Special! (With step-by-step pictures) A popular and easy Indian dessert made with carrots and milk. Gajar Halwa is delicious warm or cold. Ingredients Carrots - 6 medium-sized nos. Sugar – 1 cup Milk – 1 cup Ghee – 4 tablespoons Cardamom powder – 1/2 teaspoon Chopped cashew nuts – 10 nos. Preparation 1. Wash the carrots and trim their edges. Scrape the skin for all the carrots. 2. Use the small blade in the grater/mandoline to grate all the carrots. 3. In a heavy-bottomed pan, heat Ghee and fry the cashew nuts until light golden brown. Keep the cashew nuts aside. 4. In the same pan, add grated carrots and sauté well. Keep stirring continuously until carrots shrink in size, turn pale and smell sweet. The raw smell of carrots should go off completely. If not, your carrot halwa will taste raw. 5. Now add milk (carrots should be submerged in the milk) and let the carrots boil in milk for sometime. 6. When the carrots have boiled and absorbed by the milk well, add sugar. Stir well. The mixture will liquefy and then again start thickening. Boil for some more time until the mixture thickens and leaves Ghee on all sides. 7. When the mixture becomes like a thick mass, add the fried cashew nuts and stir once for the last time. Now, Carrot Hawa is ready! Serve. Warm or cold or even with a scoop of vanilla icecream. Notes. You can add khoya or 1 tablespoon of paneer along with sugar to the carrot halwa. Khoya will give richer taste. You can also add pistachios or almonds instead of cashew nuts. Grating the carrot takes some time. To reduce the time, you can use food processor instead. Adjust the sugar quantity according to your taste. Saute the grated carrots well before adding the milk. The raw taste of the carrot should completely go off if not the halwa will taste raw. You can also add raisins along with cashew nuts. You can also decorate with silver warq. You can also add a pinch of edible camphor.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 05:44:38 +0000
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