Rinku Bhattacharya

Cardamom and Sweet Potato Pudding

Shakarkandi Halwa

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8 to 10

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      20 min

Appears in
Instant Indian: Classic Foods from Every Region of India Made Easy in the Instant Pot
Instant Indian

By Rinku Bhattacharya

Published 2018

  • About

A beautiful fall-to-winter dessert that will add the right amount of color and indulgence to your table, this captures the natural sweetness of the sweet potato and accentuates it with brown sugar and raisins. A halwa is the Indian equivalent of a pudding, and this recipe is from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

Ingredients

  • 6 medium sweet potatoes (about 1½ pounds; I use the orange North Carolina variety)
  • 1 cup

Method

  1. Peel and halve the sweet potatoes and place in the Instant Pot® with the milk, brown sugar, and cardamom pods. Close the lid, and set the Instant Pot® on Manual Pressure for 7 minutes.
  2. When the cooking time is complete, use Quick Pressure Release. Once the pressure is released, open the lid, remove the whole cardamom pods, then mash the sweet potatoes with the mil