This a healthy, delicious sweet potato halwa recipe that anyone can make. So save this recipe for later.
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Ingredients required:
Shakarkand or sweet potatoes boiled, peeled, and mashed – 1 cup
Ghee – 2 tbsp
Milk – ½ cup
Sugar – 2-3 tbsp
Cardamom powder – ¼ tsp
Almonds or cashews, chopped – 2 tbsp

How to make Shakarkandi Ka Halwa:
1. Boil the sweet potato in a pressure cooker (5-6 whistles) or Instant pot (manual 15 minutes). When cool to the touch, peel, and mash using a potato masher.
2. Heat ghee in a pan on medium heat. Once hot, add mashed sweet potatoes.
3. Mix and cook constantly, stirring until it becomes thick and leaves the sides of the pan.
4. Now add milk, mix well and cook until all the moisture evaporates and leaves the sides of the pan.
5. Add sugar, and cardamom powder mix, and cook, till sugar melts,
6. The texture will become loose and runny again. Cook until it becomes thick again.
7. Lastly, add sliced almonds. Shakarkandi Ka Halwa is ready to serve.

Makhane ki kheer is a decadent, creamy dessert and can be served on any occasion, especially on fasting days.
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Ingredients required
Ghee – 2 tbsp
Cashew nuts – 3 tbsp
Makhana / Foxnuts – 2 cups
Full fat milk – 1 litre
Seeds from one cardamom
Sugar – ¼ cup + 1 tbsp (adjust as per taste)
Saffron – a few strands

How to make makhane ki kheer
1. Heat ghee in a pan and add the cashews to it. Fry them till light golden brown. Keep this aside.
2. Add the makhanas/foxnuts and roast till crunchy in the same ghee.
3. Take 1/3rd of the ghee-roasted makhanas and powder it into a coarse mixture along with the cardamom seeds.
4. Boil milk in a thick saucepan on medium-low heat, stirring at regular intervals. Take one or two tbsp of the hot milk into a small bowl and add the saffron strands to it.
5. Let the milk boil for about 10 min, and then add the makhanas. Keep stirring the milk constantly now.
6. When the makhanas turn soft, add the sugar, saffron and makhana-cardamom mix. Stir well and cook for another 4-5 min. The milk will thicken a little now.
7. Add the fried cashews (you can reserve a few for garnishing) once the milk has thickened a little.
8. Stir and cook for a minute and take it off heat.
9. Garnish with the remaining nuts. Serve the makhana kheer hot or chilled.