Gajar ka Halwa (Carrot Dessert-Halwa)

Sweets Week!! The holy festival of  "GANESH CHATURTHI"is going on, So I'm making sweet dishes to offer to the Elephant God. This "Gajar ka halwa" (or) "gajrela" is basically a sweet carrot dish originally from Pakistan and Punjab.
This Dessert is always seen in their marriages.
Today I will be sharing with you my recipe for this sweet carrot halwa, which is a little tedious and takes almost 2 hours to make. But sometimes if you really want to save time you can also boil these carrots in pressure cooker (or) instead of grating the carrots, put them in the mixer-grinder! But honestly the taste gets hampered a lot!!

Video Recipe: 

Ingredients:

• Carrots-1 kg
• 2 litres of  full cream.milk.
• 500gms of  sugar
• Cashewnuts and raisins (Handful ea
• Ghee 5 Tbsp (Clarified Butter)

Procedure:

-Firstly grate all the carrots nicely using a grater, Please do not use a mixer/grinder as the texture of halwa will get spoilt and it will become frothy. 

-In a big pan start boiling the full cream milk. It should become almost half its original quantity  by condensing with time (This will take time). 

-In a separate pan heat up the ghee and fry the dry fruits in it and keep it aside.  

-Then saute the grated carrots in that pan really well.

-When the amount of milk has reduced considerably add the shredded carrots and keep cooking on medium flame. 

-Never cook in high flame as there is a major possibility of it getting burnt towards the bottom and sticking to the vessel.

-Keep on stirring now and then. 

-It takes almost one and a half hours to cook it completely until the carrots are nice and soft and absorb all the milk.

-Now lastly add the sugar and mix it thoroughly with your ladle until it's completely melted into it.

But the question arises, how will you know its done?
-When you notice the halwa sticking to your ladle and there is not a single drop of water coming out from the carrots. It's DONE!!
-Lastly add the dry fruits & mix it well. Serve hot.

~ENJOY~