Name: carrot halwa recipe | gajar halwa recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 60 min
Ingredients: 2 tbsp ghee; 1 tbsp cashew (broken); 1 tbsp almonds(slivered); 500 gram carrot (shred); 500 ml full cream milk; ½ cup sugar; pinch saffron strands; ⅛ tsp green cardamom powder

carrot halwa recipe | gajar halwa recipe is home friendly sweet, whenever we want to prepare we can prepare with available ingredients. In this recipe, I have used very simple and home-based ingredients like milk and carrot. other methods include adding mawa, and condensed milk. These kinds of ingredients won’t be available at home all the time. So I used simple ingredients to make this halwa anytime.

More than anything else I like the ingredient’s quantity very much. Because it is easy to keep in mind that, 500 gm carrot, 500 ml milk, and 1/2 cup of sugar.

Let us see how to make carrot halwa recipe | gajar halwa recipe

carrot halwa recipe | gajar halwa recipe

Umamageshwari

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Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 50 mins

Total Time 1 hr

Course Dessert

Cuisine Indian

Servings 4

Ingredients

2 tbsp ghee
1 tbsp cashew (broken)
1 tbsp almonds(slivered)
500 gram carrot (shred)
500 ml full cream milk
½ cup sugar
pinch saffron strands
⅛ tsp green cardamom powder

Instructions

Firstly, wash and peel off the carrot, and shred
Secondly, heat the 2 tbsp of ghee in a heavy-bottomed pan or non-stick pan.
roast 1 tbsp of cashews and 1 tbsp of almonds slivered, take it off, and keep it aside for later use.
Put the carrot shred, and saute it in the remaining ghee in the pan for a few minutes
Next, add 500 ml of full cream milk, and boil
Stir occasionally until milk got reduced, (It took 15 minutes for me to milk reduction)
once the milk got reduced, add ½ cup of sugar and mix
Sugar liquified in heat, keep stirring
add a pinch of saffron strands
once the halwa consistency is reached, add green cardamom powder and roasted nuts and mix.
Now the carrot halwa or gajar halwa is ready.