Easiest Way to Prepare Homemade Pumpkin and Carrot Halwa

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, pumpkin and carrot halwa. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Pumpkin and Carrot Halwa is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Pumpkin and Carrot Halwa is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have pumpkin and carrot halwa using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Pumpkin and Carrot Halwa:

1. Get ghee
2. Prepare medium carrots
3. Make ready yellow pumpkin
4. Prepare whole milk
5. Get khoya (I use Milky Mist brand khoya. If you have no access to khoya, try preparing with the addition of half a cup of milk powder.)
6. Make ready sugar
7. Take saffron
8. Get green cardamom pods (seeds removed and powdered)
9. Take ****
10. Make ready For Garnish:
11. Get ghee
12. Make ready cashew nuts
13. Prepare raisins

Instructions to make Pumpkin and Carrot Halwa:

1. Peel the carrots. Scoop out the seeds and membranes from the pumpkin and peel it. Using a food processor or a manual grater, grate or finely chop the pumpkin and carrot.
2. Use a heavy bottomed pressure pan to prepare the halwa. Heat 2 tbsp ghee in pressure pan. Add the grated pumpkin and carrot. Saute on medium flame for 5 minutes. (A pressure pan is nothing but a wider, shorter, pressure cooker, used to cook curries / dals / vegetables very quickly)
3. Add the milk, give it a stir. Cover the pressure pan with its lid, along with the whistle. Cook for 3 whistles and on sim for 5 minutes. Switch off the flame and allow the pressure pan to cool.
4. Open when cool. Add the grated khoya and sugar, along with saffron strands dissolved in 1 tsp milk. On a low flame, allow to simmer until most of the milk has solidified and halva is dry. At this stage add the powdered green cardamom seeds, stir well to mix. Remove this into a bowl.
5. In a small saucepan, heat 1 tbsp ghee. Fry the cashewnuts until golden brown, drain and keep aside. Fry the raisins until puffed up. Transfer both the cashews and raisins over the Halwa.
6. Serve chilled or warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or as a filling in tartlets.

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