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- Newsgroups: rec.food.veg,rec.food.veg.cooking,rec.food.recipes
- Subject: LACTO: Carrot Halwa
- Message-ID: <sridhar.940304.1@homecheese.eas.asu.edu>
- Followup-To: poster
- Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 13:57:29 GMT
- Approved: sridhar@asuvax.eas.asu.edu
- Lines: 58
- IMO close to a North Indian gajar (Hindi term for carrot) halwa. The
- quantities are advisory. If there is much (needed) variation in your
- preparation, I would be interested in hearing about it.
-
- Sridhar.
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- CARROT HALWA
-
- CARROT_HALWA - A South Indian Preparation
-
- INGREDIENTS ()
- 350 gm. Carrots
- 0.375 ltr.
- Milk
- 0.5 ltr. Sugar
- 5-6 Cardamom Pods
- 5-6 Cashew nuts (optional)
- 8-10 Raisins (optional)
- Ghee (optional - for frying cashews)
-
- PROCEDURE
- (1) The first step is to grate the carrots using a
- blender. It is a bit difficult getting it done
- using a cheap one. Persistence pays. :-)
-
- (2) Heat milk in a vessel and bring it to boil. Once
- it is boiling, add the grated carrots until the
- odor of carrots disappears and the odor of milk
- dominates.
-
- (3) If you have sugar crystals, it is probably better
- to make a thick sugary liquid separately (heating
- sugar crystals in water until the sugar dissolves
- completely). Alternatively, you can just add
- sugar to the preparation after Step 2. Heat the
- preparation until the sugar has diffused in the
- mixture and the mixture becomes thick.
-
- (4) Grind the cardamom pods using your hands to break
- them open and add them. If using cashews, break
- them into small pieces and fry them in ghee
- separately and add them. Add the raisins too.
-
- (5) The final preparation (whatever comes out!) is the
- halwa. It is best eaten after it is cooled.
-
- NOTES
- The trick to tune the recipe to your fat/taste requirements
- is to have a fixed amount of carrots and vary the amounts
- of milk and sugar. If you need more milk, you can add it
- anytime and let the preparation for a little more time until
- it becomes thick.
-
- CONTRIBUTOR
- Sridhar Venkataraman <sridhar@asuvax.eas.asu.edu>
- with ingredient help from 'Samaiththup paar', a cookbook in Tamil.
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