Diwali recipe - Carrot halwa or Gajar halwa

Ingredients

Grated carrots - 2 cups
Sugar - 1 or 1/2 tbsp (already carrots are very sweet). 
Condensed milk - home made or milk maid 1/2 cup
Cardamom powder
Ghee - 3 tbsp 
Cashews or pistachios or almonds to garnish

Procedure

Rinse the carrots. Peel and grate the carrots with a  grater or in a food processor. Heat ghee in a kadai or thick bottomed deep pan. Add the grated carrots. Saute the carrots till they turn tender and are cooked. Keep on stirring in intervals while sauting the carrots. Then add the condensed milk. Stir  well and add the cardamom powder, cashews and raisins.stir again and simmer the halwa on a low flame stirring often, till the mixture dries up and reduces. The ghee starts to separate. Switch off the stove. Garnish with nuts. Serve gajar halwa or carrot halwa hot or chilled.