GAAJAR KI HALVA, CARROT HALVA

Gaajar halva is a favourite dish of my daughter and sons.  Normally, during winter, we get plenty of Delhi carrots and never miss the halva, payasam as sweet dish in our home.  My mother in law takes the pain to grate it and make the halva for the children with lots of dry fruits in it.

Gaajar ki halva is made of fresh carrots or gaajar with sugar, milk and lots of dry fruits.  We get two varieties of  Gaajar here one is Delhi carrot and the other one english carrot.  I made the same with english carrot now as my daughter was asking for it since last few days.

Gaajar ki halva

Let us look at the recipe now:

Ingredients:

1 cup grated gaajar ( 1 grated around 4 medium sized carrots)
1 cup milk
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup milk maid
A generous pinch of cardamom powder
2 tbsp ghee

Garnishing:

dry fruits viz. Cashews,  badam, pista, kishmish, charoli etc.  (i did not use kishmish as my daughter  does not like it)

Method:

First blanch the badam and pista in hot water for 10 minutes.
remove it from the water, remove the skin pat dry and chop them.
keep few badam halves for decoration as shown in the picture.


Peel the gaajar and grate them, keep aside.
Heat ghee in a kadai, fry the cashews and keep aside.
in the same ghee add the grated carrots and saute for 3 minutes.
now add the sugar, milk, milk made and keep on stirring until the same starts leaving the kadai.
add the cardamom powder and half of the dry fruits in it and give a stir.
garnish with remaining dry fruits and serve hot or cold as you wish.

Note:  Instead of milkmade, you can use milk powder, khoya etc.

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