This winter season I tried my hands in making gajar ka halwa. By the way this is the first time I have made it in my whole life. Thanks to the google where every required recipe is easily accessible.
Though I am not a great cook, neither very experimental, but this time thought to try this winter special recipe. Googled the recipe, and started with it. The output was really awesome. Everyone was gaga over my dish..Yipee, the first experiment and that too deliciously successful.
Composing my recipe steps for future use :P
1. Grate the carrots.
2. Put the grated carrots in the kadahi or pressure cooker(lid open).
3. Allow the water in the carrots to evaporate.
4. When only a little bit of water is remaining, add milk as per your taste. For example, I added 2 full cream milk packets (without boiling) in 1 kg grated carrots. The milk can be increased or decreased as per taste.
5. The milk starts boiling within the carrot. Time to time keep stirring this mixture of carrots and milk.Make sure the milk doesn't boil outside the vessel.
6. The milk gets sticked to the walls of the cooking vessel, keep scratching it and mixing it again in the mixture within the vessel.
7. When the carrot & milk mixture reduces to approximate 75% of the original quantity, then put 1 or 2 tablespoon of ghee.
8. When the milk starts to get near to disappear, add some elaichi powder and sugar as per taste.
9. Keep stirring this mixture, and put raisins (optional). Allow this mixture to cook on a medium flame else it will stick to the walls and base of the vessel allowing it to start burning slowly.
10. Keep stirring and cooking till whole mixture gets a good consistency and whole boiling milk disappears.
11. Add cashews, almonds, pistachios, and grated coconut (optional). The delicious halwa is ready.
Posting the final pics of the halwa, by the way one may doubt why both halwas having different colors, then let me clear it. In one I added good amount of milk so it has got light orange color, while the more red one has only a little less milk as compared to the other one.This difference in milk composition caused the color difference, but no effect on the taste.Both are yummy.
Though I am not a great cook, neither very experimental, but this time thought to try this winter special recipe. Googled the recipe, and started with it. The output was really awesome. Everyone was gaga over my dish..Yipee, the first experiment and that too deliciously successful.
Composing my recipe steps for future use :P
1. Grate the carrots.
2. Put the grated carrots in the kadahi or pressure cooker(lid open).
3. Allow the water in the carrots to evaporate.
4. When only a little bit of water is remaining, add milk as per your taste. For example, I added 2 full cream milk packets (without boiling) in 1 kg grated carrots. The milk can be increased or decreased as per taste.
5. The milk starts boiling within the carrot. Time to time keep stirring this mixture of carrots and milk.Make sure the milk doesn't boil outside the vessel.
6. The milk gets sticked to the walls of the cooking vessel, keep scratching it and mixing it again in the mixture within the vessel.
7. When the carrot & milk mixture reduces to approximate 75% of the original quantity, then put 1 or 2 tablespoon of ghee.
8. When the milk starts to get near to disappear, add some elaichi powder and sugar as per taste.
9. Keep stirring this mixture, and put raisins (optional). Allow this mixture to cook on a medium flame else it will stick to the walls and base of the vessel allowing it to start burning slowly.
10. Keep stirring and cooking till whole mixture gets a good consistency and whole boiling milk disappears.
11. Add cashews, almonds, pistachios, and grated coconut (optional). The delicious halwa is ready.
Posting the final pics of the halwa, by the way one may doubt why both halwas having different colors, then let me clear it. In one I added good amount of milk so it has got light orange color, while the more red one has only a little less milk as compared to the other one.This difference in milk composition caused the color difference, but no effect on the taste.Both are yummy.
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