Sweet potato halwa

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Sweet potato halwa

Description

Cooking Time

Preparation Time :15 Min

Cook Time : 30 Min

Total Time : 45 Min

Ingredients

Serves : 3
  • Sweet potato – 1 cup (boiled and mashed)


  • · Milk – ½ cup


  • · Sugar – ¼ cup (depends on the sweetness of sweet potato)


  • · Saffron strings


  • · Ghee – 3 tbsp


  • · Nuts – 2 tbsp (almonds and cashews chopped)


  • · Raisins – 1 tsp


  • · Cardamom powder 1 tsp.

Directions

  • Boil the sweet potato in the pressure cooker for 5 – 6 whistles. Once cool down peel and mash it. · Soak saffron in milk and keep it ready. · Heat a pan with a tbsp of ghee and add chopped nuts and raisins fry them until golden brown. Remove from the pan and keep aside. · Now add the mashed potatoes in the same pan and sauté them 3-4 mins. · Then add 1 tbsp of ghee and milk, and stir well. Keep stirring in medium flame till the milk gets incorporate well with sweet potato and the mixture becomes thick. · When the mixture starts to leave the sides of the pan, while stirring continuously. · Add remaining ghee, saffron milk mixture, fried nuts and raisins, mix well and cook on medium flame for 4 to 5 minutes, while stirring continuously. · Cook until ghee ooze out. · Switch off the flame and serve Sweet potato halwa .