Carrot Halwa !

Here goes the first recipe. One of my favorite sweets.

My first post would have been parupu podi or the pudina rice that I tried today, but paati will tell "first sweet a podu di. !". So starting with carrot halwa. :)

All you need is :

Carrot - 2 carrot serves three.

Milk - sufficient enough to boil the carrot. 

Sugar - 1 1/4 cup of sugar for 1 cup of grated carrot.

Ghee, Cashews, Saffron(Kunguma poo) and Cardamom. 

Choose a vessel which has a thick bottom. Grate the Carrot and bake it in sufficient amount of milk (make sure all carrot soaks in milk).  You can use a pressure pan and close the lid for few minutes so that carrot bakes properly. Keep stove in medium flame. Allow the carrot to fully bake. Open the lid and then add sugar (Adding sugar before can slow down the baking process). Stir for few minutes. Let the sugar melt and the mixture will slowly thicken up. Mash the mixture to halwa consistency. Now, add ghee. Keep adding sufficient ghee - at least 5 tbsp for two carrots, so that halwa becomes non sticky at the sides of the vessel. (The halwa will absorb all the ghee and the ghee should start coming out from halwa again. This is a good sign!) Add saffron and cardamom powder. Fry the cashews to golden brown in ghee and add them.

Garnish with cashews. If you serve this with vanilla ice cream, it becomes a great dessert !!