• Gajrela (Carrot Pudding)

    From Ben Collver@1:124/5016 to All on Sun Mar 10 12:16:00 2024
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    Title: Gajrela (Carrot Pudding)
    Categories: Indian
    Yield: 1 Batch

    1 lb Carrots
    4 oz Ghee or cooking oil
    6 Cardamoms
    6 Cloves
    1 Cinnamon stick (2")
    3 c Milk
    1 3/4 c Soft brown sugar
    4 oz Almonds; chopped
    2 oz Sultanas
    1 c Double cream

    Preparation time: 10 minutes
    Cooking time: 1 hour 10 minutes

    This is a very popular recipe particularly in the north of India. It
    uses large amounts of cream to make a thick sauce in which are soaked
    sweetened grated carrots. It is certainly one of the easier Indian
    sweet dishes to make.

    Scrub the carrots and grate them on the coarsest side of the grater.
    Heat the ghee or cooking oil in a saucepan. Remove the seeds from the
    caramoms and fry them, together with the cloves and cinnamon, broken
    into small pieces, for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the grated carrot and stir
    it so that it is well mixed in with the ghee.

    Pour on the milk and add the sugar. Bring to the boil and stir to
    dissolve the sugar. Continue to boil for 30 minutes until the milk
    begins to thicken. Reduce the heat and add the almonds and sultanas
    Pour in the double cream and continue to cook for a further 15
    minutes. Serve hot. Gajrela is sometimes served cold, but to my mind
    it is not as appetising as the ghee tend to coagulate when the dish
    is chilled.

    Recipe by Indian Cooking by Khalid Aziz, 1983

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