Carrot Orange Halwa Heart
A delicious and refreshing sweet to celebrate the valentine's day. This healthy sweet is made with carrot, orange,and flavored with cardamom and cloves.
Servings: 20
Ingredients
- 3 cups of carrot grated
- Pulp of 1 orange
- 1 tbsp orange zest
- 2 cups of milk
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2.5 tbsp ghee clarified butter
- 8 cardamom
- Powdered pistachio to garnish
Instructions
- Powder the cardamom and cloves. Keep aside.
- Heat 2 tbsp ghee in a non-stick or ceramic coated pan.
- Add the grated carrot, orange pulp and orange zest into the hot ghee.
- Mix well and cook on medium-low heat for 15 minutes with occasional stirring. This will help to remove the raw taste of carrot.
- Once the carrot is cooked, add milk into it.
- Stir well and again cook on medium-low heat for another 15-20 minutes or until all the milk is completely absorbed.
- Now add the sugar into the cooked carrot-milk mixture.
- Mix well. The mixture will again become watery.
- Cook for another 15 minutes or until the sugar syrup is absorbed and halwa is thick without any water.
- Now remove from heat. Add the remaining ghee, powdered cardamom-clove mix into the halwa and mix well.
- Keep it aside until warm enough to handle.
- Take a little halwa mix and make it into heart shape using a heart shaped cookie cutter.
- Garnish the top of the heart with powdered pistachios.
Notes
1: Use a wide mouth big pan to make the halwa, so that the carrot will be cooked evenly.
2: You can use sugar substitutes for the sweetness.
2: You can use sugar substitutes for the sweetness.