Instant Carrot(Gajar)halwa Recipe

Instant Carrot(Gajar) Halwa Recipe

Carrot Halwa is a traditional Indian sweet or dessert made with fresh red carrots, milk and sugar.

It’s a winter delicacy and is made using the juicy red carrots.

The traditional gajar ka halwa takes about 1-2 hour to make while this pressure cooker method only takes 15 minutes to cook halwa. A really big time saver.

My mom makes the best ever carrot halwa and today I am sharing her simple and easy recipe to make this. Here is how to make carrot halwa (Gajar Ka halwa) recipe.

Ingredients:

Carrots-1/2 kg
Milk-1 Glass
Ghee-3 Spoon
Cardamom -2
Sugar-120 g
Khoya-1oo g
Almond and cashew - For garnishing

Method:

· Wash the carrot and peel them.

· Chop the carrot.

· Add ghee in the pressure cooker along with cardamom powder, and fry for 20-30 seconds.

· Add chopped carrot fry it and cover the cooker with lid and cook for two whistle on low heat for 10 -12 minutes.

· Then let the pressure go down itself then open the lid .

· Add milk and cook for 4-5 minutes on high flame.Stir at times and let the gajar halwa cook on a high flame till the mixture thickness.

· Add sugar ,as sugar melts ,it become liquid. Let it cook for 4-5 minute or till the all the moisture evaporates and it becomes halwa consistency.

· Add cashew and khoya and cook for 5-6 minutes on low heat .

At last add one tbsp.of ghee and turn of the gas.
Garnish with cashew and almond .
Serve warm.

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