Gajar Halwa Mousse
 
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Gajar Halwa | Carrot Halwa Mousse is a fusion dessert made out of delicious, classic indian dessert gajar halwa/carrot halwa.
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Recipe type: Desserts
Cuisine: French, Fusion
Serves: 2
Ingredients
  • Orange carrots 125 grams
  • Ghee 2 tsp
  • Sugar 1 tbsp or more
  • Saffron strands few
  • Cardamom powder a pinch
  • Salt a pinch
  • Cashew nuts 4
  • Whipped cream 35 g
  • Gelatine 4g
  • Juice of 1 orange
  • Icing sugar 2 tsp
  • Pistachios handful
  • silver vark to decorate
Instructions
  1. Soak saffron in 1 teaspoon of milk
  2. Put some water in the gelatin
  3. Peel and wash the carrots and cut into small pieces.
  4. Add some water to the pressure cooker and simmer the carrot pieces upto 2 whistles.
  5. Now take out the pieces of boiled carrots, grind them without water, to a fine, smooth paste.
  6. Now heat the ghee in a pan.
  7. Add pureed Carrots and saute for some time.
  8. Add sugar to it and saute it. Add cashews powder and saute it.
  9. Add cardamom powder.
  10. Add pinch of salt and saute it
  11. Add the soaked saffron and remove from flame.
  12. After some time remove it on the plate and cool it down.
  13. Your gajar halwa is ready.
  14. Now whip up heavy cream till soft peaks achieved.
  15. Place the soaked gelatin for 5 seconds in microwave on high.
  16. Make sure it is lump free.
  17. Add gelatin to whipped cream.
  18. Mix this whipped cream -gelatin mixture into gajar halwa with light hands.
  19. Now fill this mixture in the modak mold or whichever shape you like,and refrigerate it for few hours in the fridge.
  20. For Orange reduction :
  21. Extract fresh orange juice and transfer it in a pan to boil and thicken.
  22. Add 2 tsp icing sugar to it.
  23. Put off the flame when orange juice turns slightly thicker.
  24. Cool it and fill it in a bottle.
  25. Orange juice reduction is ready.
  26. Make a desired shape with a orange juice reduction on a white plate.
  27. unmould the mousse on a serving plate and decorate it with pistachios and silver vark.
  28. Serve chilled
Recipe by Yummy tales of tummy at https://yummytalesoftummy.com/gajar-halwa-mousse-carrot-halwa-mousse/