Gajar Ka Halwa (Traditional Carrot Halwa Recipe)

Name: Gajar Ka Halwa (Traditional Carrot Halwa Recipe)
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 650 g carrots; 960 ml whole milk; 60 g ghee; 190 g sugar; 1 tsp cardamom powder; 30 g cashews; 30 g almonds; 20 g golden raisins; ⅛ tsp saffron strands

Slow-cooked grated carrots simmered in milk with ghee, sugar and cardamom, finished with nuts and raisins.

70 min 807 kcal/serving serves 6

807kcal39gprotein51gcarbs50gfat

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🥕carrots

🥛whole milk

🧈ghee

🍬sugar

🫙cardamom powder

🥜cashews

🥜almonds

🍇golden raisins

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About Dassana Amit

Indian vegetarian home cook and founder of Veg Recipes of India

Dassana Amit is an Indian home cook and food writer best known as the founder of Veg Recipes of India, one of the most widely used vegetarian recipe websites for Indian home cooking. The site has built a large following for its thorough, step-by-step approach to regional and pan-Indian vegetarian dishes.

Her recipes focus on everyday vegetarian Indian cooking, including dals, curries, rice dishes, and North Indian staples, built around layered spice blends like garam masala and tempered tadkas. Recipes are generally written for home cooks rather than restaurant technique, with detailed step-by-step photographs and precise measurements that prioritise reliability over shortcuts.

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