Gajar ka Halwa | Carrot Halwa
Gajar ka halwa is an immensely renowned dessert that is made using carrots, ghee, nuts, milk, and sugar. It is also known as gajrela in Punjabi.
Ingredients
- 1 Kg Carrot
- 1 Kg Full Cream Milk
- 15-16 strands Kesar(Saffron)
- 250 g Sugar
- 1 tablespoon Cashew, for garnishing
- 1 tablespoon Pistachios(Pista), for garnishing
- ¼ teaspoon Cardamom Powder
- 2 tablespoon Ghee
Instructions
Preparing Carrots
- Wash carrots and peel them.Thickly grate them using a food processor or a hand grater.
- Squeeze the grated carrots and separate them from water.
Main Method
- Heat milk in a heavy bottom vessel. Bring it to a boil.
- Cook till it becomes thick or in other words, 1 kg milk should get reduced to ½ kg i.e. 50% by continuous boiling on low to medium flame.
- Heat 2 tablespoon ghee in a cooker on high flame.
- Add grated carrots and cook them in ghee for 5 minutes or till a nice aroma starts coming up.
- Add the boiled milk and kesar in a cooker and mix well.
- Cook on high flame for one whistle.Keep aside and let the pressure of the cooker settle down on its own.
- Remove the lid of the cooker.Cook again with a lid removed.
- You can also transfer it to the heavy bottom vessel or continue cooking in the cooker.Keep switching between high, medium, and low flame.
- Remember, when cooking on a high flame, keep stirring continuously so that milk does not stick to the bottom of the cooker or vessel.
- Cook till the milk gets reduced by 75%.
- Pour sugar and cook on medium to low flame till the halwa starts leaving the cooker.
- Turn off the flame.Garnish with cardamom and cashew and chopped pista.