Carrot barfi is similar to carrot halwa. It is made of shredded carrot, milk solids and sugar. It is a favorite home cooked sweet in winter season in north India when red seasonal carrots are available in abundance.
Ingredients
- Carrot – 1 kg
- Milk – 500 ml
- Sugar – 1 cup
- Khoya – 1 cup (see mise en place section to prepare at home)
- Ghee – 1 tbsp + 1 tsp
- Cardamom and nuts as per choice
Serves – 18 – 20 pieces
Process
- Wash, peel and grate the carrots
- Put the grated carrot with 500 ml milk in a thick -bottomed pan, cover and cook on a medium heat
- Once the carrots are cooked, add sugar and let it cook in the open pan on medium heat till all the milk and water evaporates
- Now add khoya, mix well (grate the khoya, it will get mixed well)
- Keep cooking and stirring, till the mixture solidifies, starts to leave side (keep a close at this stage, the mixture can burn or stick to the pan)
- Add ghee, cardamom powder, nuts and mix well
- Set in a greased tray
- Save the skin, tops and scrapes, they can be used to make vegetable stock
- Put water in the pan after removing the mixture, this water will scrape all the milk solids and oil and can be used to make bread dough
