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Carrot Halva - Gajar Halwa
Ingredients
Grated carrots 1 kg
Dry milk 3 cups
Sugar 2 cups
Small cardamoms 6 (grind with 2 tsp sugar)
Almonds and pistachios 10 each (blanched and slivered)
Slivered waraq for decoration optional
Walnuts 1/4 cup finely chopped
Dalda Banaspati 3/4 cup
Methods/steps
Steam grated carrots and let them dry on a kitchen towel or newspaper. Heat banaspati in a wide saucepan (degchi) and add in the ground cardamoms. After a minute add carrots and milk powder. Keep stirring until it gets golden; add sugar and walnuts and let it cook until sugar turns into syrup. Lower heat and keep stirring. When the syrup starts drying remove from heat. Add slivered almonds and pistachios; spread it on a buttered flat dish and decorate it with silver waraq before serving.