BEETROOT HALWA/ BEETROOT SWEET
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 6
 
Ingredients
  • Beetroot – 3 or 2 ½, grated beetroot.
  • Whole Milk – 3 cups
  • Sugar – 5 - 6 tbsp – adjust as required
  • Sweetened condensed milk – 1 tbsp
  • Cardamon – 4 crushed and powdered (I grind it in mortar-pestle with a tsp of sugar)
  • Cashews – 8 broken
  • Badham – 5 sliced/flaked
  • Ghee – 1 ½ - 2 tbsp
Instructions
  1. Rinse, peel and grate the beetroots using hand grater.
  2. Heat a non-stick pan on a low to medium flame and drop the grated beetroots in the pan, sauté them for about ten minutes.
  3. Add the milk and sweetened condensed milk and keep boiling for ten minutes. Keep on stirring at regular intervals so that the mixture does not stick to the pan. The milk will boil and evaporate.
  4. When the milk is reduced to 80%, add the sugar, ghee to the halwa mixture. Stir well and continue to simmer. Keep on stirring them.
  5. Meanwhile, heat a small pan, add a spoon of ghee, and roast the cashews and badham and sauté till golden brown.
  6. Top the beetroot with the roasted nuts. Mix well and switch off when all the milk has evaporated.
Notes
1. You can add grated carrot, it adds extra sweetness and more delicious and healthy.
2. Sweetened condensed milk is optional; I had it in refrigerator after I did the “coconut ladoo”. So, wanted to use it.
3. Switch off only when all the milk has been evaporated.
Recipe by Relish The Bite at https://www.relishthebite.com/beetroot-halwa-beetroot-sweet/