Description
Ultimate guilt-free Halwa boiling massive grated carrots to limit with milk (or almond milk), finished solely with natural sweetness of 'dates' instead of white sugar.
Restaurants serving Gajar Halwa (Dates & Carrot Sugar-free Sweet)
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Carrot
- Dates
- Almond milk
- Cardamom
- Ghee
- Mixed nuts
Instructions
- [For
- Servings/Ingredients]
- large carrots, 6-
- dates (pitted and finely chopped or pasted), 300ml almond milk (or low-fat milk),
- tbsp Ghee (or coconut oil), 1/
- tsp cardamom powder,
- tbsp crushed almonds/cashews.
- Crucial prep for diet sweet. Grate carrots finely 'suri-suri' with grater until mountain-high (or crush finely in food processor).
- Heat minimal
- tsp Ghee (or coconut oil) in pot, toss grated carrots. Fry on medium ~
- mins until carrot moisture evaporates and sweet smell rises.
- Pour almond milk (or low-fat milk) until just soaking here.
- Upon boiling reduce to low, simmer slowly 20-
- mins until milk moisture completely evaporates and carrots become gooey paste.
- When moisture evaporates revealing pot bottom, add biggest secret weapon 'chopped dates', noble-scented cardamom powder, crushed nuts.
- When dates melt via heat completely integrating with carrots, overall becoming sticky golden chunk (Halwa), remove from heat.
- Plate in vessel, eat with spoon while warm. Carrot's rustic sweetness and dates' brown-sugar-like deep richness give brain euphoria making it unbelievable no white sugar is used—India's winter magic dessert.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Cardamom
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Dried sweet potato paste (as carrot sub for richer sweetness)
Pairing
Black coffee、Unsweetened straight tea
Trivia
[Hardcore] 'Gajar' is carrot, 'Halwa' is boiled-down sweet. North Indian winter feature, originally calorie violence chucking in massive sugar/Ghee/whole milk powder (Khoya), but Indian fitness demographics demonically modified this replacing with 'dates (natural sweetness)' and 'almond milk'. Packed with carrot β-carotene, dates iron, nuts quality lipids; far from guilt, the more you eat the better for body—solid version of 'drinkable beauty serum'.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Top warm Halwa with little cold 'unsweetened strained yogurt', finishing dessert enjoying contrast of hot/cold and sweet/sour!
Allergen
Tree nuts (Almonds, Cashews etc.), Dairy (if using Ghee)