Beetroot Halwa Recipe

Beetroot halwa - a slow cooked dessert recipe of halwa with grated beetroots, milk, sugar, cardamom and dry fruits. 
The method to make beetroot halwa is same as making carrot halwa recipe. the halwa has a beautiful color and looks good. you can make it more nutritious by addition of dry fruits. i have added cashews and flavored it with crushed cardamom powder. apart from cashews, you can also add raisins
serves: 4-5

Ingredients (measuring cup used, 1 cup = 250 ml)

• 500 grams beetroot, about 3 cups grated beetroot
• 3 cups full fat whole milk
• 6 tbsp organic unrefined cane sugar or regular sugar - adjust as required
• 3 tbsp ghee
• 5-6 cardamom crushed and powdered finely in a mortar-pestle (about ⅓ tsp cardamom powder)
• 15 to 20 whole cashews
• 1 tbsp golden raisins (optional)
• how to make the recipe:
  method
• rinse, peel and grate the beetroots.
• in a kadai or deep thick bottomed pan combine milk and grated beetroot.
• on a low to medium flame, bring the whole mixture to a boil and then simmer.
• keep on stirring at intervals when the mixture comes to a boil and later simmers.
• the grated beetroots will cook in the milk and the milk will start to reduce and evaporate.
• when the milk has 75% to 80% reduced, add the ghee, sugar to the halwa mixture.
• stir well and continue to simmer and cook on a low flame.
• do keep on stirring the beetroot halwa in between.
• towards the end, add the cashews, cardamom powder and raisins (if using) and simmer till all the milk is evaporated. switch off the burner.
• serve beetroot halwa hot, warm or you can also serve it cold.