Thursday, January 14, 2010

GAJAR KA HALWA

GAJAR KA HALWA




Ingredients:

Red Carrot: 1 Kg (peeled and cut into 2 pieces)
Milk: 2 cups
Khoya: 250 gms
Ghee: 10 tsp
Sugar: 2 cups
Almonds: 10 (blanched & sliced)
Cardamon Powder Powder: 1tsp
Raisin 2 tsp


Method:

  • Put carrots and milk into cooker.
  • Cover the lid.Bring the cooker to full pressure on high flame.When the cooker gives 1 whistle. reduce the heat and cook it for another 15-20 minutes on slow flame.
  • Allow the cooker to cool down by itself.
  • Open the lid & with the help of masher, mash the carrots.
  • Put the cooker again on slow flame add sugar.  Mix it well.
  • Cook till the milk & other liquid dries up. (It will take approx 15-20 minues),stirring occasionally.
  • Add khoya and ghee. Cook till Ghee shows seperately (approx 10 minutes.),stirring constantly.
  • Add the slightly cardamom powder and the raisins. Mix well.
  • Remove the Gajar halwa from heat and arrange in a serving dish.
  • Garnish with Almonds.Serve hot or cold according to your choice.








9 comments:

simplyfood said...

I love gajjar ka halwa.It looks delicious.

Karan Agrawal said...

Its kind of emotinal attyachchar...
I love it so much and miss it...
Will try making it sometime! Good post!

Pratibha said...

thank to all of you

Unknown said...

as karan already said, Pratibha its a sort of "immotional atyachar"

mann ho jata hai , khane ka, bt kya karen , ye sab nahi aata.

anyway, i love gajar ka haluwa.
n will try to use your recipie.
jaisa bhi bane, tumhai bhi khana padega.....:)

Neeraj Bhushan said...

Wish the halwa could be taken from the blog post. Good work. Please keep sharing your experiments. Best.

Suchita said...

Hey !!! its looking delicious.. but was it so good ???.. as u prepared in a pressure cooker.

Suchita said...

hey what heppened to biscuit truffle recipe.. u dont need a oven to bake it.... its simply mix of some ingredients and a fridge is needed. plz-plz try it ..

malarvizhi said...

nice post , will try soon.

Pratibha said...

Thanks to all of you