- Peel, rinse and grate carrots
- In a thick bottomed on or kadhai combine grated carrots and milk
- On a low to medium flame, bring the whole mixture to a boil and then simmer.
- While the mixture is simmering on a low flame, keep on stirring in between.
- The grated carrots will cook in the milk and the milk will start to reduce and evaporate.
- When the milk has 75% reduced, add the ghee, sugar and powdered cardamom to the mixture.
- Add khoya, stir well and continue to simmer and cook on a low flame.
- Do keep on stirring the gajar halwa in between till all the liquid in it is dried up.
- Towards the end, add the cashews and simmer till all the milk is evaporated. switch off the burner.
- Serve gajar halwa hot, warm or you can also serve it cold.
Gajar Halwa is an Indian dessert, made with red juicy carrots , available in winters. It’s cooked in ghee, with khoya and garnished with nuts and usually served warm.
Gajar Halwa
By Ruchika Anand
Jan, 22nd
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Servings
4 persons
Cook Time
40 minutes
Ingredients
8
- 10
Ingredients
- 10-12 medium tender juicy carrots
- 4 cups full cream milk
- 4 tbsp ghee
- 10-12 tbsp sugar (add as per choice)
- 4-5 green Cardamoms (2 powdered finely)
- 10-15 cashews (chopped)
- 8-10 almonds (chopped)
- 8-10 raisins
- 2 tsp slivered pistachios for garnish
- 1/2 cup khoya
Instructions
Notes/Tips
Take a tbsp of ghee in a separate pan and fry cashews, almonds and raisins in that. Raisins will swell up and nuts will get crispy. Garnishing with crispy nuts and some slivered pistachios look good and tasty
