Carrot is one of the most lovely vegetable with many nutrients. Any dessert with it is really delicious and healthy. Here comes a lovely recipe for Carrot dessert or Gajar ka Halwa. It is prepared easily with mostly available ingredients but tastes great. You can consume it hot or chilled or with a scoop of ice-cream.
- Carrot: 2 &1/2 kg
- Milk: 1 L
- Khoya: 200 g
- Sugar: 3 & 1/2 cup
- Ghee/ oil: 1/4 cup
- Cardamom: 6-8
- Coconut grated: 1 cup + 1 cup for garnishing
- Green food color: 1 drop
- Cook grated carrot and sugar, till it dries up whole water from carrot itself and from sugar too.
- Now add cardamom and mix well.
- Add ghee / oil to the carrot mixture, mix and cook well for 5 minutes. Addition of ghee brings more taste than oil.
- Now add milk to it, stir well and cook till whole milk dries up.
- Stir frequently otherwise have a chance to burn at the bottom.
- Now add 1 cup grated coconut, mix well and cook for 1-2 minutes.
- Next add khoya to this and mix well.
- Turn off the flame.
- Add it into a dessert bowl.
- Now mix 1 cup of grated coconut with a drop of green food color to get a attractive color contrast. Garnish the top with it.
Delicious Gajar ka Halwa or Carrot dessert is ready to serve. You can either serveas itself or by chilling it.
