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Carrot halwa Recipe with step by step photos and video. This recipe shares the traditional way of making delicious gajar ka halwa without any shortcuts or By the way, at home in Punjabi language we call carrot halwa as Gajrela. During winters, we make gajar ka halwa often. it is a popular sweet.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook carrot halwa (gajar ka halwa) using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Carrot Halwa (Gajar Ka Halwa):
- Make ready 2 cups Carrots -
- Take 1 cup Sugar -
- Get 1 cup Milk -
- Make ready 1/2 cup Ghee (clarified butter) -
- Take 1 tsp Cardamom powder - - ish
- Make ready Cashews
- Make ready Raisins
It is made by placing grated carrots in a pot containing a specific amount of water, milk and sugar and then cooking while stirring regularly. Gajar Ka Halwa is a classical Indian dessert, this is also known as gajrala. Gajar ka Halwa is a delicious and popular sweet made with few ingredients, carrots, milk, sugar and flavored with cardamom. Carrot Halwa popularly known as Gajar Ka Halwa or Gajar Halwa is a classic, rich and decadent, addictive melt in mouth pudding packed with dry fruits Coming back to Carrot Halwa, a very popular dessert that is prepared on special occasions including parties, festivals like Deepavali (Diwali).
Instructions to make Carrot Halwa (Gajar Ka Halwa):
- Start by grating the carrots. I grated it fine so I had thin small strands, I don't like them grated big. I was listening to a technical conversation between K and someone at home, so the distraction helped ease the pain with the continous grating. Heat a pot and melt the ghee. I know ghee is not the healthiest thing available but that is what gives the AROMA (which is VITAL!!!!!)
- Add the carrots and let it cook until it gets soft and the smell changes. It goes from raw to nice smelling carrots that have been cooked in ghee
- Next goes in the milk and allow it to cook until the milk is absorbed. Should take 15mins. Add the sugar and the cardamom and allow it cook
- It should thicken up after a little while! I tossed in the raisins and cashews that I broke into small pieces. You can also add Pisatchios if you like
- Serve this just as it is, or with some vanilla ice-cream on the side. If you have some left-overs, warm it in the micro before you serve it!
The main ingredients of gajar ka halwa are freshly grated carrots, milk, sugar, khoya, and ghee. The quantity and quality may vary according to personal taste. In the sugar free variant, sugar is excluded from the recipe. For cooking gajar ka halwa, a cooker or kadai is usually preferred. Carrot Halwa (Gajar Ka Halwa) - Carrot Halwa is one traditional North Indian dessert that is made during festivals, weddings and every special occasion.
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