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carrot halwa recipe | gajar halwa recipe

Umamageshwari
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
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
  • 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.
Keyword carrot halwa, gajar halwa