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Friday, November 13, 2009

ABC Halwa

This recipe has been adapted from Rajiv Kapoor's version.

Ingredients:
Banana - 2
Apple - 1
Carrot - 2
Sugar - 150 gm
cashew and raisins for garnishing.
Ghee - 150 gm

Method :
Peel, core and chop the apple into small pieces. Peel and mash the banana. Peel and grate the carrots.
Roast the cashew and raisins and keep them aside. In the same pan, fry the grated carrot for a minute and then add the chopped apple and all of the sugar. Keep adding ghee in small quantities. Once you're done adding the ghee mix in the mashed banana and keep stirring till the mixture forms a ball and comes to halwa consistency. Garnish it. The colour of the halwa isn't bad, so few strands of safforn mixed in milk would do.

The original recipe calls for milk and desiccated coconut as well, but I feel the mashed fruit pulp would in itself take time to reach the desired consistency; so adding milk would mean more cooking time and the taste doesn't differ much. Also, I dislike crunchy coconut in halwa. This is ideal to leave the guests guessing on what's gone into the dessert. I did just that :)

9 comments:

couchpapaya said...

delicious! my major problem with carrot halwa is grating all the carrots. when i saw 2 carrots here i was so happy. will definitely try this the next time around.

Ava said...

wow ! looks simple and takes care of left over fruit as well.

Angel's Flight said...

I agree with CP...grating the carrot is painful!! this one seems yummy and easy!

Bouncing-Bubble said...

oh yes! quite a task this grating carrot.. btw Av is bang on.. esply helpful when the bananas get neglected coz of black dots all over.

Ava said...

yeh.. kids start making ew faces when the banana isnt all yellow.

Smita said...

This looks like a simple recipe!!! Am sure the sweet tooth of my hubby would be happy to taste this ;-)

s said...

new here....very interesting selection of recipes..nice:)

Nicole said...

That sounds wonderful. Will have to try it sometime!

Unknown said...

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