Carrot Halwa

This is the first thing that i had cooked for kamal...

Its easy to make and cool to serve...
Hot carrot halwa coupled with vanilla ice cream is such a great combination i would say... it is a universal favourite dessert.

Ingredients:

Carrot - 1/2 Kg
Ghee - 1/2 Cup
Condensed Milk - 4 tbsp
sugar - 3 tbsp
Whole Milk - 1/2 Litre
Elachi - 2 (Powdered)
Cashew - 7-8
Method:
Grate the carrot in to fine bits and keep aside.Take a Pressure pan/cooker and add milk and bring it to boil. once it comes to boil add the grated carrot and stir well, pressure cook for ten mins. keep stirring until the mixture becomes thick, once the milk is mostly absorbed by the carrot add condensed milk and mix well, then followed by ghee. once it comes to halwa consistency add elachi powder and garnish with broken pieces of cashew.

Carrot can be replaced with Beetroot as well..
Close your eyes and taste a beetroot halwa it is just the same as carrot halwa..
i remember having it in some wedding while i was young..
why not i give a try... hence i i have tried it... made it and here we go...
all pink and purple beetroot halwa can be done by the above procedure...

Basundhi

BASUNDI

Ingredients:

Whole Milk - 1 Litre
sugar- 4 tbsp
Nutmeg - a small piece (jaathikaai or jaafal)
Nuts - Badam, Pista and cashew.
saffron - 2 small threads.
cardamom - 2 (powdered)

Method:
Take a Heavy bottomed vessel and boil the milk.
Once it comes to boil, simmer it and then keep collecting the layers of cream.
keep it aside on a bowl.
continue to do it until the quantity of milk reduces to a fraction of 1/4
then add all the cream collected to the vessel again and stir lightly.
add sugar and cardamom powder and nuts and saffron and turn off the heat.
serve chilled as a side dish for poori.