Carrot Kheer Recipe - Gajar Kheer Recipe - Carrot Payasam | Nisha Madhulika

Carrot kheer is a healthy and rich Indian pudding recipe prepared with fresh carrots. Use of cardamom adds a subtle taste this gajar kheer.

Ingredients

Milk – 1 litre (5 cups)
Carrots – 2
Sugar - ½ small cup
Cashews – 1 tbsp
Raisins – 1 tbsp
Pistachios – 10 to 12
Almonds – 10 to 12
Green cardamom – 5 to 6

Directions

Getting ready:

1. Peel and cut off both the ends of the carrots. Grate them using a grater and discard the hard yellow part of the carrots.

2. Peel the almonds and slice them and pistachios into thin pieces. Chop the cashews. Grind the green cardamom seeds into fine powder.

Making:

3. Begin with boiling the milk in a vessel. As the milk starts simmering, put the carrots in the vessel and cook until the kheer starts boiling again. Later, cook on low flame till the kheer becomes thick in consistency. Stir after every 1 to 2 minutes.

4. As the kheer becomes thick, add the cashews, raisins, some almonds and some pistachios in the vessel and cook the kheer for another 5 to 6 minutes.

5. Later, add sugar and cook for 1 to 2 minutes more to dissolve the sugar. Afterward, kheer will get cooked aptly, turn off the flame and mix crushed green cardamom in the kheer. Transfer in a bowl, carrot kheer is ready.

Serving:

6. Garnish this luscious and lip-smacking carrot kheer with almonds and pistachios and serve it warm or chilled. Kheer will taste more delectable when served chilled.

Suggestion

To prepare carrot kheer more quickly, add 200 grams of condensed milk in the vessel when the carrot get slightly cooked in the milk.

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Course - sweets

Dish - sweets