Healthy Carrot Halwa (from Sharan)

Ingredients:

* 3 big carrots, unpeeled

* 2 tbsp cashew butter

*1/2 cup dates chopped

* few roasted almonds

* 1/2 tsp cardamom powder

* Raisins

Method:

Grate and steam the carrots till they are well cooked. Add cashew butter, dates, raisins, and cardamom and mix well. Serve hot garnished with roasted, slivered almonds.

Variations:

This dish can be made with unpeeled bottle gourd, unpeeled pumpkin and unpeeled beetroot also.

Cashew butter:

Ingredients:

* 200 gm raw cashews

Place the cashews in the grinder up to a height of 1”. Grind till it turns to a powder. Spoon in, and grind again until it turns to butter. If it is not evenly crushed, stir and grind again)