Carrot Halwa

'Double Oscar delight for A R Rahman'.

Hurray, Finally India made it at Oscars with Slum Dog Millionare winning 8 prizes out of 10 nominations and our own music maestro A.R.Rahman bagging in two awards for best music. Bravo, Rahman. Its celebration time for whole of Indian movie lovers. I congradulate them for their efforts & hard work to bring India the much awaited golden statue.

To celebrate Oscars I think, I don't mind to put on a few calories. Lets celebrate!

Carrot Halwa:

Traditionally carrot halwa is made by sauteing the carrots in ghee first and then adding khoya to it & of-course leading to an automatic addition of loads of calories. By using non-fat milk for khoya you can reduce the unnecessary calories and the addition of ghee at the end will give the same taste & glaze to the Halwa
Red carrots are used for this recipe but its unavailable in this country so I have used regular orange carrots.

1 heaped cup grated carrots
1 ½ cup milk
½ cup sugar
½ tsp cardamom powder
A few broken cashewnuts
2 tbsp ghee

Boil milk in a heavy bottomed saucepan. Add carrots & simmer until the mixture thickens stirring occassionally in between. As it thickens stir continuously to avoid sticking to the surface of the pan. Add sugar, cardamom powder, ghee & cashewnuts & simmer until thick, stirring continuously. Serve luke warm or chilled.