Carrot Halwa Recipe

Ingredients:

Carrots - 2 cups
Milk - 2 cups
Sugar - 1 cup
Ghee/unsalted butter - 3 tbsp
Cardamom powder - 1tsp
Cashew nuts,Pistachios,Almonds,raisins -1/4 cup.

Preparation:
(1)Peel the carrots and grate them into fine thin slices.

(2)Soak the grated carrots in the milk and pressure cook it.

(3)Heat ghee in a non stick pan or a heavy bottomed wide pan.

(4)Fry all the nuts and raisins.After frying,remove them from pan ,now add the pressure cooked carrots and milk. Stir well in medium heat.

(5)Keep the lid closed , as there may be some splashes, when the milk and ghee boil together.But continue stirring in between.

(6)The milk condenses and the halwa begins to thicken.Now add sugar.

(7)When oil is seperating in the pan,carrot halwa is ready.

(8)Garnish with nuts and raisins which we already roasted in ghee.


Notes :

(1) You can fry the sliced carrots in ghee , before you pressure cook it.This will give added flavor to this recipe.

(2)This recipe could be served as a snack to the kids.It is an alternate way to give vegetables to kids in the form of sweets .