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Recipe type: Indian dessert
Author: Alka
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Serves: 4
The most famous Indian winter dessert, carrot halwa is favorite of one and all.
Ingredients
- Red juicy Carrots 500 gm.
- Sugar 250-300 gm
- Milk 2 cups
- Green cardamon (Choti elaichi) 2
- Khus khus 2 tsp
- Ghee or vegetable oil 2 tbsp
- Cashew nuts 10-12
- Raisins 10-15
- Almonds 5-6
Method
- Wash, peel the carrots and grate them
- Soak khuskhus in water, for few hours, then rinse 3 or 4 times with water with help of tea strainer
- In a thick bottomed kadai, pour two tablespoon of ghee or oil, add khuskhus and saute it for few seconds on medium flame, taking care not to burn the khuskhus
- Add grated carrots and elaichi and saute again for few min, stirring continuously so that carrots don’t turn brown
- Add two cups of milk and let it boil on low flame till the mixture is almost dry
- Add sugar and mix it properly and continue to cook it till all the milk is evaporated
- Let the halwa cool down a bit, then add chopped almonds, cashews and few raisins and serve it with love
