Beetroot Halwa Recipe {BEST Ever!}
Beetroot halwa recipe - Try this healthy, nutritious, delicious sweet for the next festival or make it for your kids/toddlers.
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 40 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 +1 tablespoon Ghee (clarified butter)
- 300 grams or 2 ¼ cups Beetroot (grated and loosely packed)
- 1 ⅓ cups Milk
- ¼ cup Sugar
- ¼ teaspoon Green cardamom seeds powder
- 6 Cashew nuts (chopped)
- 6 Almonds (sliced)
Instructions
- 1
Wash and scrub the beetroot really well.
- 2
Peel and discard the skin.
- 3
Grate it using a box grater or a food processor.
- 4
Heat the 1 tablespoon of ghee in a pan and add grated beetroot.
- 5
Cook for about 5 minutes or till it starts to soften and shrinks in size. Do stir occasionally.
- 6
Then add milk and bring it to a simmer.
- 7
Continue cooking with stirring often to avoid sticking and burning. As the milk evaporated and starts to become thick, do stir very often and eventually stir continuously.
- 8
Cook till all the moisture is evaporated (for about 15 minutes).
- 9
Then add sugar and cardamom powder, mix well.
- 10
Again stir and cook till the moisture from sugar is evaporated and becomes thick halwa consistency (about 6 minutes).
- 11
Lastly, add chopped almonds, cashews and remaining 1 tablespoon ghee.
- 12
Mix and cook for a minute and then turn off the stove.