Carrot Halwa

Prep Time20 mins

Cook Time20 mins

Total Time40 mins

Ingredients

Fresh carrots- 4 big sized

Sugar- 1 cup

Ghee- 1/4 cup

Cardamom pods- 4 nos.

Cashews- few

Raisins- few

Instructions

Preparation

• Wash, peel and grate carrots. Measure the grated carrots in cup. Grated carrot and sugar ratio should be 1:1/2. After grating 4 carrots I got tightly packed 2 cup of grated carrot. So I used 1 cup of sugar.
• De-seed cardamom and make fine powder out of it. Keep it aside.

Method

• Pressure cook grated carrot for 3 whistles. Do not add water or milk to carrot while pressure cooking. Just add grated carrot in a vessel and keep the vessel closed in pressure cooker.
  
• Heat a pan/kadai adding 2 teaspoon of ghee and dry fruits like raisin and cashews. Fry them till cashew turns little brown. Remove and keep them aside.
• In the same pan add pressure cooked grated carrot and sugar. Keep stirring in low flame. Sugar melts immediately and the content becomes watery. continue stirring until the carrot absorbs all the sugar and mixture becomes thick as shown below.
  
• Now add ghee and again continue stirring for about 5 minutes. The mixture now becomes thick absorbing all the ghee. This is when you need to add cardamom powder and ghee fried cashews/raisins. Switch off the flame.
  
• Carrot halwa/gajar ka halwa is ready to serve. Try this easy recipe and let me know about your end product :).
  

Note:

• You can use pistachios and almonds too to garnish the carrot halwa.
• I highly recommend above mentioned sugar and grated carrot ratio. The sweetness is not too less/more. It is just perfect.