Gajar Ka Halwa (Carrot Halwa)
A delicious Indian dessert made with carrots, slow cooked in milk and sweetened with sugar and condensed milk. A must-try winter recipe!
Equipment
- Pan
- Grater
- Knives and Cutting Board
- Thick-bottomed Sauce Pan
- Spatula
Ingredients
- 2 Kgs Carrots (Preferably Red)
- 2 Lt Full Fat Milk
- 400 gm Sweetened Condensed Milk
- 300 gm Sugar
- 8-10 Strands of Saffron
- 100 gm Ghee
- 100 gm Chopped nuts like cashews, Almonds, and pistachios
- 1 tsp Cardamom Powder
Instructions
- Wash, peel, and grate the carrots.
- Transfer the carrots to a big, thick-bottomed pan. Add milk and saffron and start cooking them together.
- Keep the heat on medium and cook till the carrots are fully cooked, and at least 50% of the water ( released from the carrots and the milk) evaporates. Stir with a spatula from time to time so that milk solids don't stick to the base of the pan. This may take about an hour.
- Now add cardamom powder and sugar.
- Add condensed milk.
- Continue cooking, stirring from time to time, till all the water evaporates, and only milk solids and carrots remain. This may take another hour or so.
- Add Kyoya.
- Heat ghee in a separate pan. Fry the nuts. Now add this mixture to the Halwa. Cook together on medium heat for another 15 minutes.
- Mix everything well and serve.