Gajar Halwa recipe with Khoya | carrot pudding recipe
Indian Gajar ka halwa or carrot halva is best served hot with cold scoops of vanilla ice cream. Learn how to make this easy recipe.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 500 grams grated carrots
- ½ cup small beetroot boiled and grated (optional)
- 1.5 liter full fat milk
- ½ cup mawa optional
- ½ cup sugar or as per taste
- 4 tbsp. ghee or clarified butter
- ¼ cup dry fruits almonds,pistachio,cashews
- 1 teaspoon cardamom powder
Instructions
- Heat 2 tbsp. ghee in a pan,cook grated carrots for few minutes.
- Add grated beetroot to the carrots
- Add milk,cardamom and let it cook on slow/medium flame,let it come to a boil.
- Once it starts boiling,let it cook on slow flame.
- Continue to cook,allowing the milk to evaporate
- As the milk is reduced to ⅓ of original quantity,add Sugar
- Add mawa(milk solids) and let it cook,add chopped nuts now.
- Once the milk has evaporated,add 2 tbsp. ghee and let is cook until the ghee starts to ooze out.
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Notes
You may use some homemade mawa to add much richness to the halwa.
The beetroot and mawa are optional items, you may increase the amount of milk(use 1 liter more), if you do not want to use mawa but prefer those milk solids .
Nutrition
Serving: 1g