Name: Carrots Halwa /Gajar Halwa recipe by Sana Tungekar at BetterButter
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 70 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 1/2 Kg Fresh Carrots; 1 litre pure whole milk; 1/2 kg Sugar; 100 grams Pure ghee as preffered; 1 tspn cardamom seeds; 2 tblspn full Raisins; Hand full of Cashew split and chopped; Some blanched chopped Almonds to garnish

ABOUT Carrots Halwa /Gajar Halwa RECIPE

A north Indian dessert made seasonally mainly in winter.,as the fresh carrots in winter are lovely red in colour and juicy.These grated and cooked till dry in pure milk. Sugar and ghee are added to give the texture .Dry fruit especially raisins added while roasting in ghee along with cardomom

Ingredients Serving: 4

1 1/2 Kg Fresh Carrots
1 litre pure whole milk
1/2 kg Sugar
100 grams Pure ghee as preffered
1 tspn cardamom seeds
2 tblspn full Raisins
Hand full of Cashew split and chopped
Some blanched chopped Almonds to garnish

Instructions

Wash peel and grate Carrots fine.
Boil milk in a heavy bottom pot
Now add Grated carrots slowly to this and stir well
Let them cook in milk stirring ocassionaly to check till milk is almost drying up
Add sugar to this mix well
Now heat sum ghee in a deep pan or pot and add crushed cardomom
Transfér the cooked carrots in milk to this and add raisins and cashews splits.
Roast well till it completely and changes color .
Garnish with chopped almonds and serve hot

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