A Sweet Beginning with Carrot Halwa.....

It took me sometime to decide what I should post . Since this is my first post I thought I would start with something sweet. Here goes the recipe for my version of Carrot Halwa which I prepared for makara-sankranthi.



Ingredients:

Grated Carrots - 3 cups
Milk - 2 cups
Sugar - 1 cup
Ghee - 3 tbl.sp
Cardamom powder - ¼ tsp
Cashews and Raisins - 2 tbl.sp each

Method:

• Add milk and the grated carrots to a heavy bottom pan and cook closed on low to medium heat. Keep stirring in-between until all the milk has been absorbed. This process will take about 45 minutes. [I usually crush the carrots in my blender instead of grating them.]
• Add sugar and cardamom powder to this mixture and keep stirring. When all the moisture is absorbed and the halva has reached a thick consistency add 2 Tbl.sp of ghee and fry the mixture for 5 more minutes with constant stirring and turn off he heat.
• Fry the cashews and raisins in the remaining ghee and mix it with the halwa. The halwa is ready to be served now.