Gajar ka halwa

Name: Gajar ka halwa
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: Carrots Milk Water Ghee Sugar , , , ,

Indian Dish, also known as gajrela, is a sweet dessert pudding associated mainly with the North India

Indian Dish, also known as gajrela, is a sweet dessert pudding associated mainly with the North India

Ingredients

1

First rinse, peel and then grate the carrots (8-9 medium sized tender juicy carrots), either with a hand held grater or in a food processor.
2

In a kadai, add all of the grated carrots.
3

Pour 4 cups full fat milk.
4

Stir the grated carrots and milk and keep the kadai on the stove top.
5

Cook this mixture on a low to medium flame. the milk will froth and start reducing slowly and slowly.
6

Keep on stirring this halwa mixture often. keep scraping the sides of the kadai to remove the evaporated milk solids. add the milk solids to the cooking mixture.
7

The mixture should reduce by 75% and then you add 4 tbsp ghee/clarified butter. some milk will be there when you add the ghee.
8

Next add 10-12 tbsp sugar or as required.
9

Add the cardamom powder (5 to 6 green cardamom/chotti elachi, powdered finely in a mortar-pestle or about ⅓ tsp cardamom powder).
10

Stir and continue to simmer on a low flame till the mixture starts to thicken and reduce more. stir at intervals.
11

When the halwa has reduced much and you see a little milk – like that of a pudding consistency. then add 20-25 whole cashews, a pinch of saffron strands and handful of golden raisins.
12

Continue to stir and simmer till the whole mixture becomes dry. the milk should evaporate completely and you will see fine milk solids in the halwa. remember to scrape the milk solids stuck at the sides of the kadai or pan and add them to the gajar halwa. some moisture is also fine in the halwa.