Gajar Ka Halwa Recipe | Carrot Halwa Recipe

Gajar Ka Halwa is a very tasty and famous Indian dish. It is mostly famous all over. Here I used both milk and khoya to make this tasty Dessert dish. I have prepared it in a microwave and a pressure cooker. Here a simple and easy steps to make it.

Ingredients

• 1/2 kg carrots (peeled and grated)
• milk 1/2 cup 
• 1/2 cup sugar or slightly less
• 1/2 cup khoya (roughly mashed)
• 2 tbsp desi ghee
• seeds of 2 green cardamom (chotti elaichi) powder
• 1 tbsp chopped nuts like almond or cashew
• 1 tbsp raisins (kishmish)

Method to prepare Gajar Ka Halwa in Microwave

• Mix grated carrots, sugar and milk in a big deep bowl.
• Microwave covered for 10 minutes.
• Add a ghee and khoya. Mix well.
• Microwave uncovered for 10 minutes.
• Add cardamon and chopped nuts.
• Decorates with nuts.
• Serve hot.

Method to prepare in Pressure Cooker

• Add a milk and a carrot in a pressure cooker and cook for 1 whistle.
• Now open a cooker and cook continuously on high flame till the milk evaporate.
• Once a milk evaporate, add a sugar and cook on medium flame until the mixture became thick.
• Now add desi ghee and khoya and cook for 3-4 minutes.
• Now add a cardamom and chopped nuts.
• Mix well and cook for 2 minutes.
• Serve hot.