Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, gajar ka halwa. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Carrot halwa or gajar halwa recipe - A slow cooked traditional Indian halwa or pudding made by simmering carrots in milk. Carrot halwa is popularly known as gajar ka halwa, gajrela or gajar halwa. Carrot halwa/ಕ್ಯಾರೆಟ್ ಹಲ್ವಾ/gajar ka halwa/carrot halwa in Kannada/#sweetrecipe/#halwarecipe.
Gajar ka Halwa is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Gajar ka Halwa is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have gajar ka halwa using 8 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Gajar ka Halwa:
- Get 500 gm Carrots
- Get 1/4 Beetroot (totally optional)
- Prepare 150 ml Milk
- Get 100 gm Sugar
- Prepare 150 gm Milk Powder or 250 gm Khoya (Mawa)
- Prepare 50 ml Clarified butter (Desi Ghee)
- Make ready 4 Green cardamom 4 or if using cardamom powder then 1/4 tsp
- Get 3-4 tbsp chopped nuts of choice
Here is a quick and tasty version of Gajar ka Halwa made using the pressure cooker. Ingredients of Gajar Ka Halwa Recipe: Grated carrots, milk, sugar and nuts are stirred and cooked together. Whole lot of nuts make this a great choice to fulfill those post meal dessert cravings. Gajar ka halwa is a delicious mouth watering sweet dish prepared by carrot and milk especially in Indian subcontinent.
Instructions to make Gajar ka Halwa:
- Wash, clean & grate the carrots. No need to grate them very finely.
- Add finely grated beetroot for a nice colour. Avoid it if you don’t like or if you have red carrots.
- Add milk, cook covered for 20 minutes.
- After 20 minutes add half of the clarified butter & cook for 2 minutes on medium heat, stirring constantly.
- Gradually add milk powder & ensure that there are no lumps in the halwa.
- Add sugar & mix well. Now it would release some water
- Stir it on medium/high heat till the halwa dries.
- Add the remaining clarified butter & mix well.
- Stir for 2 minutes on medium/high heat.
- Add cardamom powder & mix well.
- Add nuts of your choice & serve warm.
Its very easy to prepare and cook however it takes little bit of time to cook. Gajar Halwa is made in north India only during winters. The reason is that it is made using the fresh red carrots that we get in winters in Delhi. So during winters if you go to anyone's house in Delhi. 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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