How to make Tricolour Sweet Medley -

Layers of gajar ka halwa, white chocolate phirni and green pea phirni to represent our national flag.

Sanjeev Kapoor

This recipe is from FoodFood TV channel & has featured on Sanjeev Kapoor Kitchen.

Main Ingredients : Carrot (गाजर), Green Peas (हरे मटर)

Cuisine : Fusion

Course : Desserts


Tricolour Sweet Medley

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Hindi: gajar
If there is one vegetable that is truly a nutritional hero then it is bound to be the carrot. A goldmine of nutrients, this is the reason they can be even termed as worth the other ‘karat’ (as in gold)! Ranging in colours from orange, black, pink to red, yellow and white, this delicious vegetable is within the reach of rich and poor alike and is rightly called the universal root. The best role that this winter vegetable can play – chomp on one as it is an excellent snack!

Prep Time : 11-15 minutes

Cook time : 21-25 minutes

Serve : 4

Level Of Cooking : Moderate

Taste : Sweet

Ingredients for Tricolour Sweet Medley Recipe

  • Carrot grated 1 cup

  • Green Peas blanched 1/4 cup

  • Rice powder 2 tablespoons

  • Ghee 2 tablespoons

  • Milk 1/2 cup + 4 tablespoons

  • Castor sugar 1/4 cup + 4 tablespoons

  • Few strands of saffron + for sprinkling

  • Green cardamom powder 1/2 teaspoon

  • White chocolate chopped 4 tablespoons

  • Iranian pistachios blanched 3 tablespoons

  • Almond slivers blanched 2 tablespoons

Method

Step 1

To make gajar ka halwa, heat 1 tbsp ghee in a non-stick pan, add carrot and cook for 8-10 minutes.

Step 2

To make green phirni, heat remaining ghee in another non-stick pan.

Step 3

Grind green peas with 3 tbsps water to a smooth puree. Add peas puree to the 2nd pan and mix well. Cook for 5-7 minutes.

Step 4

Combine rice powder and ½ cup milk in a bowl.

Step 5

To make white chocolate phirni, heat milk-rice powder mixture in a 3rd non-stick pan. Cook till it thickens

Step 6

Add ¼ cup castor sugar to the 1st pan. Cook till the sugar melts, add 2 tbsps milk and mix well.

Step 7

Add 2 tbsps milk and 2 tbsps castor sugar to the 2nd pan and mix well. Remove from heat. Add ¼ tsp cardamom powder and 2 tbsps white chocolate and mix well.

Step 8

Add a ladleful of rice milk mixture to the 1st pan. Add saffron and mix well. Simmer for a few more minutes.

Step 9

Add 2 tbsps castor sugar, remaining cardamom powder to the white chocolate phirni and mix well. Add remaining white chocolate and mix well. Simmer for a few minutes.

Step 10

Add 1 tbsp pistachios to the peas phirni and mix well.

Step 11

Pour a portion of peas phirni in individual shot glasses, sprinkle ½ tbsp pistachios in each, add a portion of white chocolate phirni, add ½ tbsp almond slivers. Top each glass with a portion gajar ka halwa, sprinkle few strands of saffron and serve immediately.

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MasterChef Sanjeev Kapoor

Chef Sanjeev Kapoor is the most celebrated face of Indian cuisine. He is Chef extraordinaire, runs a successful TV Channel FoodFood, hosted Khana Khazana cookery show on television for more than 17 years, author of 150+ best selling cookbooks, restaurateur and winner of several culinary awards. He is living his dream of making Indian cuisine the number one in the world and empowering women through power of cooking to become self sufficient. His recipe portal www.sanjeevkapoor.com is a complete cookery manual with a compendium of more than 10,000 tried & tested recipes, videos, articles, tips & trivia and a wealth of information on the art and craft of cooking in both English and Hindi.