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Gajrela (Carrot and Milk Pudding)

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Recipe

Ingredients

  • 4 teaspoons clear butter
  • 3 cardamoms
  • 500 milliliters full cream milk
  • 500 grams carrots, scraped and finely grated
  • 90 grams sugar
  • 60 grams paneer cheese
  • 1 teaspoon slivered almonds
  • 1 teaspoon chopped pistachios
  • 1 teaspoon raisings

Directions

  1. Heat the milk in a heavy saucepan. Once boiling, add the carrots. Cook until the carrots are soft and most of the liquid had evaporated.
  2. Stir in the sugar and cook for 5 minutes. Stir. Add the clear butter and cook 5 minutes more.
  3. Shell the cardamoms, remove the seeds, grind, mix into pan.
  4. Crumble the paneer, mix in, cook 3 minutes.
  5. Add a part of the almonds, pistachio, and raisins. Mix in, cover, remove from heat. Let it cool, and pour into a dish. Garnish with the rest of almonds, pistachios and raisins.