Gajar Halwa | Carrot halwa | Gajar ka Halwa recipe

 Cooking Time: 45min

Ingredients:

Item	Quantity
Grated Carrot or Gajar	2 Cups
Milk	2 Cups
Saffron or Kesar (Optional)	5 to 6 threads
Sugar	1/4th Cup
Condensed milk (Optional)	4 Tablespoons
Ghee or butter	4 Tablespoons
Chopped dry fruits	4 Tablespoons
Cardamom or Elaichi	1 Teaspoon
Salt	2 Pinches

Recipe: 

1. Let's make the very famous Gajar ka halwa, we need to clean carrots and grate it and we are ready to prepare it. Take a pan or cooker and add the same quantity of milk in it.
2. Add Saffron or Kesar. We need to cook it till the milk gets evaporated. It will take around 15 to 20 min, its totally depend upon the thickness of your pan and flame we are keeping. Keep mixing it in between. If we are making it in the cooker, just cook it till 3 vessels. After that follow the same remaining process from the next step.
3. Once the milk gets evaporated, add sugar and condensed milk in it. The mixture gets thin again, we need to keep mixing it till becomes thick again. (Before adding sugar make sure our carrots become soft enough cause after addition of sugar carrot stops melting, sugar starts absorbing water from carrot)
4. Till that take another pan and add remaining 2 spoons of butter or ghee, heat it up and add dry fruits which we chopped in size as we like. We just want to roast it a little.
5. Now add this dry fruits tadka, salt and cardamom or Elaichi powder in our halwa pan and mix it well. 
6. Cook it for a min, till our halwa gets thick as shown in the mixture and our halwa is ready to eat.

Tips:

We can also use khoya in this recipe instead of milk. In this case, we need to add a 3/4th cup of khoya. If we are using khoya directly we need to add it after carrot becomes soft by cooking it with water or some milk.

This very testy halwa contains around 450 calories in one serving bowl. This is a very famous sweet from India. 

The increasing fact about the carrot is that are fat-soluble, including vitamins A, E and K, are heat stable and won't be destroyed by boiling. In fact, cooking can help break down the vegetable's cell walls, freeing up more of the nutrients. Heating may also increase their calcium levels in carrots.😳

The basic ingredient in this recipe is carrot and as we all know its very good for our eyes. Other than that, it has some more interesting benefits to our body.

Carrots contain numerous phytochemicals that are well-studied for their anticancer properties. Carrots are rich in carotenoids, as it is rich in these compounds can improve skin appearance and also help people look relatively younger. 

Carrots also contain fiber, so its benefits for weight loss and fiber intake can improve glucose metabolism in individuals with diabetes. One study claimed that carrot juice contributed to a 5% reduction in systolic blood pressure.

As we know its a source of vitamin A, which regulates the functioning of your system and prevents infections. 

Isn't it interesting? One vegetable contains these many benefits! 😍

Let's talk about halwa now, carrot halwa, also known as Gajorer Halua, Gajrela, Gajar Pak. It's a very interesting sweet made in almost all regions of India. 

Most of the production of carrots is taken place in North India mainly, cause its cold environment is very much beneficial for fertilizing carrots.