Beetroot Halwa

Beetroot Halwa is an delicious Indian sweet recipe. It is very nutritious and healthy. Now a days, beetroot or carrot halwa has become trend in almost all birthday parties and family events.  Beetroot halwa is not as popular as carrot halwa but many people like it. I am sure people who doesn't like to eat beetroot much will definitely like this beetroot halwa. Just try it once and see.

Beetroot Halwa

Ingredients: Serve - 4

• Fresh beetroots- shredded- 2cups
• Milk- 1 & ½ cup
• Sugar- 1cup
• Ghee- 8tbspn
• Cashew nuts - 10
• Kishmish - 10
• Cardamom powder – 1/2tspn

The following picture shows the step by step process for Beetroot Halwa:

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Method:

1. First Wash, peel and grate the beetroots.
2. Take a wide-mouthed vessel, heat 4tbspn ghee in medium flame. 
3. Add grated beetroots and stir continuously until raw smell leaves. That means we will find a kind of sweet smell from beetroots. This process takes around 10 minutes.(figure 1 & 2)
4. Add milk; mix well and boil them for 5 minutes.(figure 3)
5. Now close with lid and cook for 10 to 15 minutes. On frequent intervals open the lid & stir the mixture well so that scorching can be prevented. (figure 4)
6. Open the lid and continue stir until milk is completely evaporated in beetroot. (figure 5)
7. Once the milk is completely evaporated then reduce the flame to low. Add sugar and mix well.(figure 6 )
8. Once sugar is added, the mixture tends to liquefy. Stir well until mixture gets thick. This will take around 10 minutes.
9. Mean while take a pan, heat 4tspn ghee add cashews, khismish, roast until its color changes to golden and switch off the flame. (figure 7)
10. After the beetroot mixture in step 8 gets thick add roasted cashews, kishmish along with ghee. Add cardamom powder and mix them well.(figure 8)
11. Serve the Beetroot Halwa with hot/ cold.(figure 9)

Delicious Beetroot Halwa is ready to serve !

Additional Tips:-

• In step2, taking of wide-mouthed vessel the beetroots get cooked fast and uniform. This way you can save gas, time and energy.