Chocolate Gajar Halwa Pie with Walnut Oat Crust
 
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Serves: 8-10
Ingredients
  • For the Crust
  • 2 cups whole walnuts
  • 1 cup oat flour
  • pinch of salt
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • 3 tbsps coconut oil, solid
  • 2 tbsps maple syrup
  • For the Filling
  • 450 grams carrots, grated
  • 1½ tbsps ghee (you could also use regular unsalted butter if you can't find ghee)
  • ½ tsp cardamom powder (you can decrease this amount if you don't want the flavour too strong)
  • ¼ tsp fennel powder
  • 1 cup whole milk
  • 1 can sweetened condensed milk
  • 8-10 almonds, roughly chopped
  • 8-10 walnuts, roughly chopped
  • Handful of raisins
  • For the Chocolate Layer
  • 200 grams dark chocolate, melted
  • Handful of almonds, walnuts and coconut flakes for decoration (the amount depends on you!)
Instructions
  1. For the crust, place walnuts in a food processor and pulse until you get a coarse meal. Transfer walnut meal to a medium bowl and add the oat flour, baking soda, and salt. Whisk to combine. Add coconut oil and work into mixture with your fingers until it starts to come together. Add maple syrup and continue to mix with your fingers until evenly combined.
  2. Preheat oven to 175°C/350°F.
  3. Transfer dough to a buttered pie pan and press into bottom and up the sides. Place in refrigerator for at least 30 mins. Blind bake for 10 minutes. I then baked it for another 5 after I took the weights out. The crust then is nice and brown. Remove from oven and cool on wire rack until you are ready to fill it. The bottom of the crust will puff up during baking, so with a large spoon, gently flatten it back down.
  4. Once the crust is out of oven, turn oven temperature up to 220°C/425°F.
  5. For the filling, In a shallow non stick pan, melt the ghee and then add the milk with the cardamom. 30 seconds later add the grated carrots and cook, on low-medium heat, till the carrots are soft, around 15-20 minutes. Make sure to keep a close eye. You don't want the carrots to stick to the bottom and get burnt. Add the condensed milk and cook further for around 30 minutes. After the mixture has reduced, add the chopped nuts and raisins and mix to combine well. Cook for another 10-15 minutes. Set aside to cool completely. The halwa will be slightly runny but that is ok.
  6. Once completely cooled pour the halwa into the preached pie crust and set in the oven for 30 minutes.
  7. Take out of the oven and cool completely.
  8. While the halwa pie is cooling melt the chocolate in a double boiler.
  9. Spread over the completely cooled pie and strew the nuts on top with the coconut flakes while the chocolate is still wet.
  10. Place pie in refrigerator for 30 minutes for the chocolate to set.
  11. Serve with some vanilla ice cream or at as is!
Recipe by Box of Spice at https://boxofspice.com/2016/01/chocolate-gajar-halwa-pie-with-walnut-oat-crust/