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Carrot Halwa | Gajar Ka Halwaa Popular Indian Dessert!
a delicious dessert made with grated carrots, milk, sugar, Ghee, cardamom and nuts
Ingredients
- 1/2 Kg Carrot
- 1 Cup Sugar1 cup - 250ml
- 6 Tablespoon Ghee (Clarified butter)
- 2 Cups Milk
- 1 Teaspoon Cardamom Powder
- 10-12 Cashew
- 1 Tablespoon, Slivered Almond
Directions
Carrot halwa (Gajar Ka Halwa) is a wonderful dessert dish for any party. It is very delicious and will be liked by all people around the world. I prepared this tasteful dessert for a party where a Hungarian family (my son’s friends) came and they loved to eat this recipe. For every party i loved to prepare this dessert. Carrot halwa is easy to prepare and very delicious. Gajar Halwa can be served hot or cold.
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. Carrots must first be grated and then dried before cooking. The grated carrots are then put into a heated pan with a specific amount of milk or khoya and sugar. After stirring for 4–5 minutes, roughly chopped cashew nuts are added and 10–15 minutes later a specific amount of pure ghee is added as well. Finally, it is often served with a garnish of almonds and pistachios.
Variations
In the carrot-papaya halwa, equal amounts of carrot and papaya are used. First, a mixture of carrot and papaya scrapings is prepared. This mixture is fried in a kadai or a cooker with ghee for about 5 minutes. The rest of the process is same as the basic recipe. This recipe has become popular lately because papaya is added to it which provides a different flavor and taste compared to the regular gajar ka halwa. Red velvet carrot halwa is another famous variation of the gajar ka halwa. It is made by heating a comparatively large amount of milk cream along with carrots, sugar, rose water and saffron over low flame. Red velvet carrot halwa is also a very good source of Vitamin A and Calcium.
Other lesser-known variations include Carrot and beetroot halwa. In the carrot and beetroot halwa, grated beetroot is added to grated carrots and this mixture is heated in a kadai on a low flame and further a specific amount of mava and sugar per choice is added to it. After 30 minutes of stirring and cooking, carrot and beetroot halwa is ready to be served.
Presenting Carrot Halwa
Carrot Halwa can be served with Ice cream. You may also want to check the below link to serve the carrot halwa in the form of Laddoo and Candy
Video making of Carrot Halwa
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Steps
1 Done 15 mins | Preparing CarrotsPeel the carrot skin and wash it nicely under the running water. Next step is to grate the carrot. But I have a mixer where I can change the blade to grate carrot. So my grating part is not tiresome. If you have a mixer which can help you in chopping then follow the below mentioned method for the same. Otherwise, use the grater and grate the same (ignore the below mentioned method by using mixer for grating). Finely chop the carrot into thin circular slices to take it to the mixer |
2 Done | Grate the carrot in a mixer using grating blade which usually comes with the current day mixers. Give a pulse or two in regular intervals and grate it. If you are using a grater, you can skip the chopping part. |
3 Done 20 mins | Pressure Cook CarrotsTake the grated carrot and milk in a vessel and cook them in the pressure cooker. Allow 2-3 whistles. After pressure is set off, carefully remove the cooked carrot vessel from the pressure cooker. You can still see more milk which we are going to cook further. |
4 Done 20 mins | Keep Cooking with sugarHeat a heavy bottomed pan and add the cooked grated carrot and milk. If we use a non-stick pan, we have an advantage of stirring the carrot mixture in regular intervals instead of stirring continuously in a traditional iron or indanium pan(Illupu Chatti in Tamil). Keep the flame in medium high and allow the milk carrot mixture to thicken. When the milk is almost absorbed, add the sugar and stir it. I generally like more sweet, for those who like to have mild sweet can use 3/4th cup of sugar |
5 Done | Adding sugar will dilute the carrot halwa mixture again. So we need some more patience to continuously stir the halwa in low flame till the dissolves and gets thicken . |
6 Done 2 mins | Garnishing Time!Then, add cardamom powder and ghee and stir continuously till the mixture leaves the pan. When we stir the mixture the halwa should come like a ball without sticking on to the pan. In a separate pan, add little ghee and fry the cashews. Add the fried cashews and finely chopped badam and pista to the carrot halwa and mix it well. Now remove carrot halwa from the flame and place it in a plate. |
7 Done | Serving Time!The delicious carrot halwa is ready to serve. We can keep the halwa in refrigerator and we can use it for 2 days. If we place it in freezer we can even use if for a month. Before serving heat the halwa and serve it. Or we can also serve the halwa on top of Vannila Icecream |
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thank you. i tried it out and it came out well.I would like to know the quantity of carrots required to serve 20 people. Thanks in advance 🙂
Maami.. How to make it if dont have a vessel to fit in a cooker… but you have a really small cooker..
How to cook the caroots in milk if you dont have a vessel to fir inside the cooker…
I only have a small sized cooker..
Hello Ganesh, you can directly add milk and grated carrots to the cooker and close it and allow for 3 whistles. After the pressure is released, just open up the lid and keep stirring and continue the next step. So you can direcly cook the whole dish in your small cooker.
Hello aunty, I am a srilankan tamil living in Paris, I love your recipes, thank you very much.
Wow! Never try this before. I shall try this delicious looking dessert this weekend.
Thank you
I love your recipes,thank you
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