Gajar Ka Halwa

A quite essential and immensely popular Indian dessert, Gajar Ka Halwa is rich, creamy, and decadent. It is made with carrots, ghee, milk, sugar, and nuts and flavored with cardamom.

Gajar Halwa is also known as Carrot Halwa or Gajrela and is a winter special recipe that is part of most celebrations in India be it weddings, parties, or festivals like Diwali.

Ingredients

- carrots - whole milk - sugar - cardamom powder - almonds - raisin

prepare carrots

Peel and grate the carrots. Keep it aside. Now heat ghee in a heavy bottom pan. Add almonds and raisins, and sauté for a few seconds. Take it out on a plate.

Add the grated carrots to the same pan and turn the heat to medium-high. Stirring often, sauté the carrots for around 2 minutes.

Now add milk. Stir well. Let the carrot and milk cook for about 30 minutes on medium heat. Make sure to stir in between. And keep an eye on it.

add milk

Keep stirring the halwa often on medium heat and cook until all the milk is absorbed by the carrots and it reduces to milk solids. You will see small particles of milk solids in the halwa.

reduced milk

At this point add in the sugar. Once you mix in the sugar, the sugar will melt and the halwa will become very liquid.

ADD SUGAR

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