Carrot halwa recipe | How to make easy carrot halwa | Carrot halwa using pressure cooker
By Latha on January 2nd, 2016
Carrot halwa recipe explained with step by step pictures and a video. Carrot halwa is a popular Indian dessert and is very easy to prepare. In this carrot halwa recipe carrot is cooked using pressure cooker, which makes the whole process simple and hassle free. Also this carrot halwa recipe needs very less milk but tastes great!!. Even beginners can try this full proof recipe with confidence. You can find three more halwa recipes on this website like banana halwa, beetroot halwa and ashgourd halwa recipes.
Carrot has a lot of health benefits and its very good for kids. Read more about health benefits of carrot in my earlier post carrot juice or milkshake. You can also learn about different names and health benefits of carrot in this post.
I have also posted healthy and kids friendly carrot parota recipe, do not miss it. If you are looking more carrot recipes then do check my healthy carrot salad recipe using carrot and mungdal (green gram dal) and carrot-almond payasa or kheer recipe. You can also find many sweet recipes on this website
I have made a video on this carrot halwa recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look.
Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 30 min
Serves: 2
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 2 cup grated carrot or 4 medium sized carrot
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup sugar (adjust as per your taste)
- 2 tbsp ghee
- 1 tbsp cashews
- 1 tbsp raisins
- 1/4 tsp cardamom powder
Instructions for making carrot halwa:
- Wash, peel and grate the carrots
- Take a pressure cooker and put carrot and milk.
- Close the lid and make one or two whistles. This makes the halwa making process easy and fast.
- Transfer the cooked carrot and milk into a thick bottomed vessel.
- Allow it to boil on high flame stirring continuously. This step will take hardly 5 minutes.
- When the milk is reduced to half, reduce the flame, add sugar and continue boiling by stirring it occasionally.
- Parallelly take 2 table spoon ghee in a small pan and fry cashews and raisins.
- When the halwa is almost dry, add fried cashews and raisins along with the ghee and cardamom powder.
- Mix well for few minutes and switch off the stove. Serve it hot or cold.
Dear reader, We have a Kannada version of this recipe. Click here to read this recipe in Kannada.
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