Carrot kheer
Carrot kheer or carrot payasam with just 3 main ingredients available at home. Full video, step by step pictures post.
Servings: 6
Ingredients
- 1 & ½ cup carrot grated
- 2 cups milk
- ¼ cup + 2 tbsp sugar
- ¼ cup water
- 1 tbsp. ghee
- 1 cardamom powdered
- 8 to 10 almonds
Instructions
- First Wash, peel and grate carrot finely. I used 2 carrots that weighed 180 gms in total.
- Side by side, in a sauce pan, bring 2 cups milk to boil. Simmer it until it reduces to 1 cup.
- Soak almonds for 10-20 mins. Slice thinly and set aside.In another pan, heat ghee. Roast the sliced almonds until nice aroma wafts. Drain from ghee and keep aside.
- In the same ghee, sautee the carrot in medium flame until it turns pale, dry and soft cooked. Takes 3 mins roughly.
- Add water, sugar and bring to boil. Do not let it boil for long time.
- Pour in milk and simmer for 4 mins.
- Add powdered cardamom and roasted almonds. Mix and switch off flame.
Video
Notes
- I used Amul gold
- Use fine grater for homogenous texture.
- Make sure carrot gets cooked before adding sugar.
- Do not cook carrot with sugar for long time.