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sweet potato halwa recipe for toddlers
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Sweet Potato Halwa Recipe for Toddlers and Kids

Sweet Potato halwa - halwa recipe with sweet potato, ghee, and brown sugar
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Total Time45 minutes
Course: Desserts
Cuisine: Indian
Calories:
Author: Kalyani

Ingredients

  • Sweet potato - 2 medium sized
  • Palm Sugar/ Brown Sugar - ¼ cup
  • Homemade Ghee - 4 tbsp
  • Cardamom powder - ⅛ tsp
  • Saffron - a pinch
  • Milk - 2 tbsp
  • Cashews - 6
  • Raisins - 1 Tsp

Instructions

  • Keep all the ingredients ready. Wash and pressure cook sweet potatoes with enough water for 2-3 whistles. Open the cooker once pressure released.
  • Peel and Mash the cooked sweet potatoes well with a fork and set aside.
  • Soak saffron in milk and keep it ready. Heat a pan with a tablespoon of ghee and add cashews and raisins, fry them until golden brown. Remove from the pan once done.
  • Now add mashed sweet potatoes to the same pan and fry them for two minutes in low medium flame. Then add the required amount of sugar & powdered cardamom to it and mix well.
  • After adding sugar, the mixture will be liquefied and gets thicken up with time. Add saffron soaked milk now.
  • Continue stirring and add the remaining ghee little by little.
  • When the halwa forms a whole mass and doesn't stick to the pan, add ghee fried cashews & raisins and switch off the flame.

Nutrition

Serving: 3g