Carrot kheer – celebrating 10000 hits

10000th hit within 45 days of blogging surely calls for celebration, what say? 🙂 . So here’s a sweet.

Payasams can be quite boringly the same? Try this different and healthy kheer using carrots.

Preparation time : 30 minutes

Serves :3

Ingredients :

• Carrots – 250 grams
• Cashew nuts – 5
• Badam nuts – 5
• Milk – 1 litre
• Saffron – a pinch
• Elaichi powder – a pinch
• Sugar – 3 table spoons

Method :

1. Peel the skin of the carrots.
2. Cut them into medium sized cubes.
3. Pressure cook them.
4. Soak badam and cashews in hot water and skin the badams.
5. Now heat a heavy bottomed pan add the milk and bring it to boil.
6. Simmer the stove and wait till 1 litre of milk gets reduced to 3/4 ths of a litre. Stir in between.
7. Now grind the carrots, badam nuts and cashew nuts into a smooth paste.
8. Add this ground paste, elaichi powder and saffron to the boiling milk.
9. Simmer for 5 minutes.
10. Add sugar to it and put off the flame.The heat of the payasam is sufficient to melt the sugar.

Now the kheer is ready. Transfer it to a serving bowl.

This can be kept in the fridge and served cool also. It can also be served hot after preparation.

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