Healthy Hawla

Hawla is one of my husband's favorite Indian sweet treats, and it is loaded with sugar!  Well no longer will I deprive my husband of his favorite treat from home.  I have made his favorite treat healthy, and you can not tell the two apart!

Ingredients: 

2-3 bags large carrots

2 cups original unsweetened almond milk

2 cups xylitol

10 cardamoms

1/2 cup chopped cashews

1/2-1 tbsp ghee or organic butter

Peel the carrots by hand, and then shred them in your food processor (or you can crate them by hand). Place the grated carrots in a pressure cooker with almond milk and cook until the pressure cooker gives two whistles.  If you don't have a pressure cooker, you can boil the mixture for 10-15 minutes.  Transfer the carrots from the pressure cooker to a large heavy pot heated at a low temperature; add in your xylitol and ground cardamoms.  The mixture will need to simmer for about 1-2 hours on low to get rid of all the liquid.  Near the end, in a separate pan sauté cashews in ghee or organic butter.  Lastly, add your sautéed cashews to your Halwa, and mix up well.  Serve this treat warm.  Enjoy!