Carrot Barfi ( Gajar ki barfi )

Hello friends,
Namaskar....

I am Sangeeta Agrawal and heartily welcome you at my food blog.

# "Carrot barfi"is the delicious dessert of winter. Often we make carrot Halwa at our home but rarely try the carrot barfi as we make other types of barfi...like coconut, bottle gourd etc.

# Through this recipe, you can make your "carrot barfi" easily and as delicious as you find in the market.

# Prep Time....25 minutes
# Cook Time...1 hour
# Serving...1o to 12

# Ingredients For Carrot barfi...

1. Red Carrot.....2 kilo gram
2. Mawa.....400 gram ( or fresh malai )
3. Desi ghee....80 gram
4. Cardamom powder...1/2 tea spoon
5. Crushed cashews...20 gram
6. Chopped dry fruits...2 Table spoon for garnishing

# For sugar syrup...

1. Sugar....300 gram
2. Water...150 ml.

# Method of Making...

1. Firstly wash the carrots well.

2. Then cut the both ends of carrot and peel them.

3. Again wash the peeled carrots if any impurity is there and keep aside.

4. Now grate the carrots in a grater ( ghiyakas ) one by one leaving the hard yellow part of carrots.

5. Then heat the pressure cooker with 1 Table spoon ghee.
As the ghee melts up, just mix all the grated Carrot in it.
Just pressure cook it till 1 whistle only.

6. Let the pressure down by itself.

7. Then transfer this steamed Carrot in a heavy bottomed kadhai or wok on the medium high flame.

8. Now cook and fry them till the mixture becomes dry.
It will take 12 minutes.

9. Just add mawa or fresh cream of home in the mixture and mix and stir well.

10. Stir it constantly till the mawa mixture becomes dry.
It will take 15 minutes.

11. Add 2 Table spoon ghee and mix it well.
Let it cool down.

12. Now heat a pan on the high flame and add sugar and water for the sugar syrup.

As the sugar melts in the water, just slow the flame and cook it till 2 strands consistency.
( 2 tar ki chasni )

13. Then transfer this sugar syrup in the carrots mixture and mix and stir it well.

14. Now you will find it something soggy...
But as you keep on stirring it....soon it will be thick.

15. Keep on stirring it fastly.
Don't leave it otherwise it can stick or burn.

16. Just add the remaining Desi ghee and crushed cashews in the mixture and stir it till the mixture separates the sides of kadhai.

Now you will see that the mixture has become very smooth and seperating the ghee.

Now just off the flame and transfer this barfi mixture in a greased container to set.

Sprinkle the chopped dry Fruits over it and press them with a greased spoon...so that it could stick well.

Let the carrot barfi cool completely till hours for a nice taste and texture.

Better let it set over night...then cut it in the rectangle or square shape.

Next day, you will find it amazing in taste and texture like market Style carrot barfi.

# Note...

1.  Just pressure cook the grated Carrot till 1 whistle only.
This steamed Carrot saves time.
You can cook the grated Carrot directly in the kadhai with some milk.
But it is time taking.

2. After adding mawa and after adding sugar syrup....keep on stirring the mixture to escape from burning.

3. You can make this barfi without sugar syrup too.
The method is that...after frying the grated Carrot, just add sugar and stir it till the mixture becomes dry.

Then add mawa or home made malai in it.
And again stir it till the thick consistency like carrot halwa.
Lastly add 50 gram cashews nuts powder and 2 spoon Desi ghee in the mixture...and stir it well.

Barfi mixture is done.
Just transfer it in a greased container.

Let it cool completely and then cut it as your choice and enjoy it.

Thanks.