easy gajar ka halwa recipe with condensed milk | carrot halwa recipe with milkmaid
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 10 minutes
- Cook time: 30 minutes
- Total time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 3 Servings
- Category: sweet
- Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients
- 5 large carrot / gajar
- 1 tbsp ghee / clarified butter
- ½ cup full cream milk
- ¼ cup sweetened condensed milk / nestle milkmaid
- 4 cardamom / elachi (powdered)
- 5 cashews / kaju (chopped)
- 5 almonds / badam (chopped)
- 1 tsp pistachios (finely chopped)
Method
- firstly, peel the skin of carrot. carrot halwa taste great when prepared with red carrot. however, we don't get red carrot, so used normal carrots.
- later, grate the carrot into long threads as possible and transfer to kadai.
- further, add a tbsp of ghee and saute for 3 minutes. this helps carrots to cook fast and also retain their shape even after cooking.
- also add half cup of milk and mix well. note, we are adding milk just to cook carrots.
- get to boil and keep stirring occasionally. making sure carrots are uniformly cooked and doesn't get burnt from the bottom.
- simmer for 5 minutes or till the milk is evaporated completely.
- once the milk evaporates, the carrots will be almost cooked.
- furthermore, add condensed milk / milkmaid and mix well. note, we are not adding any extra sugar, as the condensed milk do contain sweetness.
- get to boil and keep stirring occasionally. making sure carrots are completely cooked and doesn't get burnt from the bottom.
- keep mixing and mashing till the milk evaporates completely.
- also add cardamom powder, cashews and almonds.
- give a good mix.
- finally, serve carrot halwa prepared from condensed milk garnished with chopped pistachios.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.