Gajar Kheer / Carrot Pudding - Happy New Year!!

January 13, 2020

Gajar Kheer / Carrot Pudding - Happy New Year!!

Here’s wishing you and your loved one’s and Very Happy New Year with peace, health, happiness and prosperity!!!!

We all make resolutions for the New Year and by the time it’s February, we tend to follow our same old habits and routine J…. From the last one year, I have learnt that if you stick to your resolution or not it is important to have mental peace which ensures everything goes right for you…

Give time to yourself, speak good about yourself, love yourself, treat yourself with something that you crave to eat… go for long walks, meditation works wonders, do things that you like gardening, cooking, singing… think positive, speak positive and remove all the negativity from your life! I am sure we all know this but now we need to start following this to ensure a peaceful and stress free life!!

When we talk about stress how can we avoid it?? Get good amount of sleep, Pranayam and Meditation, talk to your neighbour, visit a friend and yes take some time to relax… and if you are not able to follow any of them… don’t get STRESSED as I am sharing with you a DESSERT recipe which will take away the stress from you…

Let’s make an easy and delicious Carrot Pudding / Gajar Kheer to mark the New Year and add sweetness to our lives!!!

Ingredients:

Washed and peeled Carrots – 1 Large

Full Cream Milk – ½ litre

Sugar – 1 medium bowl (adjust sugar as per your taste)

Cardamom powder – ½ tsp

Dry Fruits – Pistachio, Almonds, Cashews, Raisins (sliced) – keep aside some for garnishing.

Strand of Saffron

Ghee – 1 teaspoon

Method:

Wash and peel the carrots and slice them into cubes. Pressure cook them on high flame upto 2 whistles. Cool this completely. Make a puree of the cooked carrots and keep them aside.

Heat the milk in a pan or container, once the milk starts boiling, low the flame and add the carrot puree and cook this for 10 to 15 minutes on medium flame. Keep stirring continuously. You may now add sugar and cook this for another 5 minutes. It’s time to add the cardamom powder sliced dry fruits to the milk mixture. Allow this to cook for another 10 minutes on low flame. Don’t forget to stir in between. By now, you will observe that the mixture has thickened and is creamy. You may now check the sweetness and add more sugar if required. Add in some saffron at this time. In a small pan, heat the ghee and add the balance dry fruits and when the colour of the dry fruit changes switch off the flame and transfer it into the Kheer. You may enjoy this hot or cold. I prefer cooling it down… and refrigerating it for 2 to 3 hours and then enjoying this super flavorful, aromatic and super delicious Gajar Kheer with my loved one’s!