Delhi carrot halwa [Traditional gajar halwa]-How to make-Stepwise pictures

Cuisine Style: Punjab, north india | Cooking Time: 35 to 45 minutes | To Serve: 4 | Type: Sweet, dessert, diwali special sweet, halwa, pudding

Ingredients

• Delhi carrots [red]-2 cups [finely grated]
• Ghee [melted butter] – 3 tbsp
• Milk-4 cups
• Sugar-1 ½ cups
• Cardamom powder – ½ tbsp
• Almond-5
• Cashew Nut-4
• Saffron - few

Preparation

• Peel off the carrot skin and grate and keep aside (make sure that your grater hole is too thin or maximum thin).
• In a wide pan take 1 tbsp of ghee and roast (light brown) almonds, cashew nuts & chop, keep it aside.
• In the same pan add ghee & carrot sauté for 2 minutes and this make the carrot tender.
• Pour the milk to the pan and cook for 30 (or till the milk dries up) minutes in low to medium flame.
• Add sugar & cook till the mixture blend together. Then add cardamom powder, chopped nuts & saffron.
• Add ghee & stir continuously. When mixture becomes thick then cut off heat.
  
• Garnish with dry fruits serve cold / warm / hot

Tip

• For Instant carrot halwa use condensed milk and khoya, Khoa or mava.
  

How to make Delhi carrot halwa [Traditional gajar halwa]-Stepwise pictures[Easy, Delicious]

Delhi carrot

Finely grate

Perfect texture of finely grated red carrot

Heat ghee in a pan then roast cashew nuts & almonds then chop

In the same pan add grated red carrot & saute till color becomes orange

Add milk & let it boil

Milk is boiling, Stir well

Milk becomes thick & stir well

Add sugar

Add cardamom powder

Add chopped nuts

Halwa mixture becomes thick, add ghee, saute continuously

Mixture blend together

Perfectly textured carrot halwa mixture-Now cut off heat

Transfer halwa to a serving bowl & garnish with grated almonds then serve hot or chilled