The most and easiest sweet dish to prepare is carrot halwa. Everyone in my family loves Carrot Halwa. However, I usually avoid preparing this because of the grating. It takes lot of time and effort to grate the carrots finely. By the time you have grated a pound of carrot, your arm starts to hurt. 
Last year, I prepared this several times when we had a couple of get together. Making this is so easy and requires very few ingredients. Now that the next festival Diwali or Deepavali is fast approaching, you can prepare this for the festival.
Ingredients”
1. 1 pound carrot – washed and finely grated
2. 3 cups of sugar, depends on how sweet you like
4. Dried fruits – Cashews, Raisins, Almonds
5. 3 tsp Ghee or Refined Oil
6. Crushed cardamom
Method:
1. Grate carrots finely
2. In a thick bottomed pan,add a spoonful of ghee or oil and fry all the nuts. Transfer them onto a plate
3. In the same thick bottomed pan, add the remaining ghee or oil and carrots. Fry these carrots on slow fire until they are tender and soft
4. Once the carrots are done, add sugar and keep stirring until all the sugar melts. This may take 9-10 minutes.
5. When you see that the carrot sugar mixture is becoming thick, turn off the stove.
6. Now add the fried nuts and crushed cardamom and mix.
Your Carrot Halwa is ready to be eaten.
Posted by shobha rao on October 28, 2012 at 6:27 am
hi meera i would like to post some easy recipes.let me kno w where do i send it
Posted by meeraghu on October 30, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Shobha,
I have sent you an email. Please send your recipes there.
Posted by k.nagendra on November 23, 2012 at 5:26 am
Its really good.
Posted by Ritha Kulkarni on April 21, 2013 at 11:53 pm
I always make carrot halwa…and everytime I make its atleast five pounds…bcoz my three kids love it….I made my life easier by investing in a good food processor which makes grating the carrot easy as a pie.