Ingredients for Sweet Potato Halwa:-

• 1 cup —- sugar
• 2 cups —- milk
• 250 gms —- sweetened condensed milk
• 120 gms —- ghee
• 1 cup —- sweet potato, cooked & mashed
• 50 gms —- cashew nute, chopped
• 2 tsp —- rose water
• 1 tsp —- ground cardamom

Sweet Potato Halwa Preparation:

1. Put sugar, milk, condensed milk & ghee into a large saucepan.
2. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture reaches a softball stage or 116 C (to taste for softball stage drop a quarter teaspoonful into a cup of cold water.
3. If it firms enough to be shaped into a ball, it has reached the required temperature). Remove from heat.
4. Add mashed sweet potato & heat with a rotary beater until all the lumps are smoothed out.
5. Mix it well in a bowl.
6. Heat a non-stick pan to about 116 C. cook the mixture again for 5-10 minutes.
7. Remove from heat, stir in the nuts, rose wather & cardamom.
8. Pour into a well battered shallow dish or baking tin.
9. Press lightly with a piece to buttered banana leaf or aluminum foil to smooth & flatten the surface.
10. Allow to cool & set.
11. Cut in desired shape & serve.