Carrot Halwa, Yummy Gajar Ka Halwa

This is an easy and simple recipe for carrot halwa or Gajar Ka Halwa as its called in Pakistan. Also a unique and beautiful way to present your halwa!

It saves a lot of time if you shred the carrots in a food processer. It takes some time to dry the milk up but its well worth it.

I ate so much of this growing up specially in the winter time. Whenever I make this deep orange Dessert It makes me nostalgic.

Total Time:

• 50 mins

Ingredients:

• 500 g carrots shredded

• 4 cups/ 1 liter whole milk

• 1/2 cup ghee or vegetable oil

• 1 cup sugar

• 1/2 tsp ground cardamom

• chopped almonds or pistachios to decorate

• cookie cutters for presentation idea (optional)

METHOD:

• Shred the Carrots and add to milk

• Boil the mixture and let it simmer till the milk dries up, stirring occasionally

• This step can take over 30 mins

• After the milk is almost dry and the cardamom, ghee and sugar and fry till it turns golden deep orange. It will come together and start separating from the fat.

• To Decorate, flatten the halwa on a flat surface and cut out petal shapes with a cookie cutter or knife

• arrange them on your platter and decorate with nuts and cardamom

Some helpful tips:

• Once the milk starts to dry keep stirring so it does not get stuck to the pan or burn