Easy way of Cooking Carrot Halwa

Ingredients

Organic Baby Carrot - 1/2 lb or 4 nos medium size
2% Reduced Fat Milk - 2 cups
Sugar - 1 cup
Butter - 1 ts
Almonds - 20 nos
Saffron - a pinch
Almonds - 4 nos
Raisins - 20 nos
Cashew nuts - 5 nos


Method

1. Wash the carrot and peel the skin, shred the carrot and keep aside. Chop the raisins,cashew nuts and 4 almonds into small pieces.

2. In a low heat place a nonstick pan add butter to it and fry the chopped raisins,almonds and cashew nuts till it turns to golden brown and keep it aside, in the same pan add the milk and carrot.

3. Cook till the carrot is tender and fully cooked, stir it occasionally. It takes around 40 to 50mins for this process, meanwhile grind the saffron,20 almond and sugar coarsely together.

4. Once when the milk is almost absorbed by the carrot add the Saffron-sugar-almond mixture to it and stir it nicely.

5. Add the roasted cashew nuts,raisins and almonds to it and stir it, switch off the gas once when all the milk is evaporated.

It is an excellent dessert for the kids, carrots is very good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin A, Vitamin K and almond which is very low in Cholesterol and Sodium, it is also a good source of Riboflavin (essential for healthy skin, nails, hair growth and general good health, including regulating thyroid activity), and a very good source of Vitamin E.