Carrot Halwa

Name: Carrot Halwa
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: Serves 4–6
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 700 ml/24 fl oz/3 cups full-cream/whole milk; 500 g/1 lb 2 oz carrots, peeled, washed and coarsely grated; 2 tbsp vegetable oil; 2 cardamom pods; pinch of saffron threads; 50 g/2 oz/¼ cup raisins; 250 g/9 oz/generous 1 cup caster/granulated sugar

Preparation info

Serves
4–6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 40

Appears in

Mowgli Street Food

By Nisha Katona

Published 2018

About

Carrots in India are more like fruit than an anodyne root vegetable. They are red and full of sweet, deep flavour, which makes them excellent ingredients in desserts. This great recipe showcases carrots in a very different way. It’s a kind of flour-free, sticky carrot cake. And it’s heavy – you only need a small slice... or two.

Ingredients

2 tbsp vegetable oil
2 cardamom pods
500 g/1

Method

Put the vegetable oil in a large high-sided frying pan set over a medium-high heat. When hot, add the cardamom pods and fry until they become fragrant – about 30 seconds. Add the grated carrot to the pan and fry for 4 minutes.
Add the milk and bring up to the boil. While boiling, stir constantly for 5 minutes, ensuring the milk doesn’t catch on the bottom of th