CARROT HALWA

Ingredients:

Fresh Carrots – shredded – 4 cups

Milk – 3 cups

Sugar – 1 cup

Ghee – 8 tbsp. (approximately 1/2 cup)

Cashew nuts – 10

Cardamom pods (elachi / elakkai) – 2

Method:

·       Wash, peel and grate the carrots.

·       Place a cooker Medium heat. Add the shredded carrots into the ghee and mix well.

·       Fry until the carrots turn pale. Add the milk.

·       I used 3 cups of milk. i.e. enough milk to submerge the carrots so that they get cooked well in the milk. Allow the milk to boil. Take 5 minutes.

·       Let the carrots get cooked well in the milk. The carrots should drink in all the milk. This will take 20-30 minutes.

·       Once the milk is completely drunk, add in the sugar.

·       Now, add the remaining ghee.

·       Roast the cashews will 1 tsp. ghee.

·       Remove seeds from cardamom pod and powder it with sugar. 

·       Add the roasted cashews and powdered cardamom. Mix them well.

·       Cook the halwa stirring occasionally until the added ghee separates out. This takes 10 more minutes. 

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