Carrot Halwa ( Gajjar ka Halwa )

carrot halwa

Ingredients:

  

S.No	Ingredient	Quantity
1.	Carrots (red)	9-10
2.	Sugar	1 ½ cup
3.	Ghee	1 cup
4.	Milk	1 ½ kg
5.	Mixed nuts	3-4 tablespoon

Method:

1.     Peel of the outer skin of the carrots and rinse them with water.

2.    Take some cashew nuts, almonds, pista and raisins. Mix them and keep them aside.

3.    Grate the washed carrots with medium size grater (not too thick and not too thin)

4.    Take a big pan and add the milk to boil.

5.    Next, add the grated carrots and mix them well.

6.    Now, we need to cook this for about an hour. This step will take maximum amount of time. Make sure you keep mixing it after every few minutes or so. This will make sure that carrots blend well with the milk. We need to cook this until all the milk evaporates and turn into khoa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoa) . It will look like this:

7.    Once the milk turns into khoa, add ghee and sugar. Give it a good mix.

8.    Lastly, add crushed mixed nuts to it and cook it on simmer for around 5 minutes until the ghee comes out on the surface( shiny types surface).

9.    Serve hot. Garnish it with grated khoa on the top. (Optional).