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Gajar ka Halwa Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 kg Carrots gajar
  • 1 tbsp Desi Ghee
  • Cashew
  • Almonds
  • chironji
  • Pistachio
  • Raisins kishmish
  • 1 ltr full cream milk
  • ½ cup Sugar

Instructions

Washing and Grating Carrots

  • Wash carrots and peel them.
  • Grate them, and remember not to grate the middle white portion of them.
  • Only grate the red or pink part of it.

Frying Dry Fruits

  • Take a Pan and heat it
  • Add 1 tbsp desi ghee and melt it.
  • When the ghee is heated properly, Put chopped cashews, almonds, chironji, etc. and fry it nicely.
  • Once the dry fruits are fried. Remove out in a bowl.

Making Gajar ka Halwa

  • Now, in the leftover ghee in the pan add grated gajar in it.
  • Cook gajar on a medium flame for 2-3 minutes and let them shrink.
  • This step is done so that it does not take much time in cooking it with milk and also, and it adds nice taste to it.
  • Now, add 1-litre full cream milk into it and mix it a very well.
  • Now, we will cook the gajar in the milk.
  • Cook for 20-25 minutes on medium flame and stir after a few minutes.
  • Cook milk and gajar until it gets soaked and binds easily. Stir it nicely.
  • After 20-25 minutes of cooking and stirring. Milk is soaked in the gajar
  • Now, add a pinch of cardamom powder.
  • Add half a cup of sugar to it or as per your taste.
  • Mix it very well.
  • Stir it continuously otherwise it may stick to the bottom.
  • Once the sugar melts carrots leave the liquid. You need to reduce the liquid.
  • Stir continuously to get a good mix
  • Cook for some time and let the sugar get soaked and mix nicely and become thick.
  • At last, add all the roasted dry fruits to it
  • Delicious gajar ka halwa is ready.

Notes

You can add khoya on top of it for making it tastier. Turn off the gas flames and add 100 grams of grated khoya on top of it.