Carrot halwa

Name: Carrot halwa
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 1/2 kg carrots; 1 1/2 bowl ghee or clarified butter; 1/4 kg khoya; 2 tsp green cardamom powder; bowlful raisins, almonds, cashews; 1 bowl sugar

Supriya Shenoy @Minoshkaa2021

Mumbai, India

One of the favorite dessert from India a must in weddings and other celebrations. Rich in flavor and taste. Make it this winter and relish it.

Supriya Shenoy @Minoshkaa2021

Mumbai, India

One of the favorite dessert from India a must in weddings and other celebrations. Rich in flavor and taste. Make it this winter and relish it.

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Ingredients

1 and half hour

1 1/2 kg carrots
1 1/2 bowlghee or clarified butter
1/4 kg khoya
2 tspgreen cardamom powder
bowlful raisins, almonds, cashews
1 bowlsugar

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Steps

1 and half hour

1

Wash and grate the carrots
2

Heat a big kadai or thick bottom wok.
3

When the kadai gets hot, add the bowl of pure ghee to the kadai let the ghee too get hot then add a tsp of green cardamom powder to it.
4

Next add grated carrots to the ghee and cardamom mixture and stir and mix it all up thoroughly bottom to top, cover it up for 8 to 10 minutes Keep the gas on low flame. Keep checking by opening the cover and mixing.
5

When you cover the grated carrot, it starts cooking in its own juices and starts reducing slowly.
6

Then open cover after 8 to 10 minutes you will see steam rising and the carrots cooking and leaving a fragrance.
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To this then add the khoya, mix it for the next 5 minutes.
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Then add the sugar and cook all this without cover for the next 40 minutes checking and mixing. Carrots will gradually loose their rawness.and start leaving ghee on the sides. When this the halwa is done.
9

Add the dry fruits to the carrot halwa and serve.

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Supriya Shenoy @Minoshkaa2021

on January 28, 2023 15:43

Mumbai, India

My love for cooking has developed rather late. Functional cooking was comfortable but slowly after my children have grown up and started becoming foodies and my hubby too and especially during this lockdown have started cooking and enjoying the process too.