Gajar Ka Halwa

Name: Gajar Ka Halwa
Total time: 5400 s
Yield: 6-7 people
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 8 carrots; 2 packets Red Cow milk; as per requirement Cashew and Raisins; as required Pure ghee; 4 green Cardamoms and 4 cloves; as per requirement Sugar or Batasha; as per requirement Jaggery

Sawoni Haldar @sawoni_cooks

A dessert that tastes no less than divine.

Sawoni Haldar @sawoni_cooks

A dessert that tastes no less than divine.

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Ingredients

1hr 30 mins

6-7 people

8carrots
2 packetsRed Cow milk
as per requirementCashew and Raisins
as requiredPure ghee
4green Cardamoms and 4 cloves
as per requirementSugar or Batasha
as per requirementJaggery

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Steps

1hr 30 mins

1

Wash the carrots and peel them from top to bottom. Cut off the top and then grate them finely using a grater.
2

In a container boil two packets of milk without water. Crush the cardamoms and cloves and add them to the milk.
3

Once the milk comes to a boil, reduce the flame to low.
4

Now take a kadhai, heat up 1 tbsp ghee and fry the crushed cashews and some raisins. Once golden brown, set them aside.
5

In the same kadhai, add 3 tbsp ghee and then add the grated carrots. Add another 1 tbsp ghee and keep on stirring.
6

Keep it stirring until all the water content in the carrots dries up and they change the colour.
7

After stirring for 5 to 10 mins, lower the flame and gradually add the milk. Now turn the flame higher and keep boiling them. DO NOT cover it at any point.
8

Once the milk dries up to a certain extent and it just turns to thicken up, add 20 to 25 batasha (can be adjusted along with desired sweetness).
9

Keep stirring in between in order to avoid it from sticking at the bottom of the kadhai.
10

Once the milk dries up to another extent and the halwa is neither too thick nor too runny, add 2 tbsp jaggery. It gives the halwa a beautiful colour without altering the taste.
11

Now turn off the flame. And after cooling a little bit pour it into the serving bowl. Decorate it with any kind of dry fruits (I used crushed cashews).
12

Serve with roti, poori, Paratha as a side dish or just have it as a dessert.