POPY FOODS Tasty and Healthy Food Recipes

The famous yummy Indian sweet carrot halwa is prepared using carrots as primary ingredient. Carrots are natural and best source of vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin B6, folic acid and thiamine. Presence of these vitamins and minerals helps to maintain good eye sight, reduce the risk of heart diseases and blood pressure. Especially vitamin A helps to maintain healthy cell membranes that fight against the disease causing organisms. In spite of these healthy benefits, most of the children hesitate to eat the carrots as the children doesn’t concentrate on the benefits rather they like those foods which look attractive and are good to taste. So instead of forcing the children to eat the carrots as it is, its better to prepare some tasty, yummy and delicious recipe out of it so that children like to eat it and enjoy its taste and get the benefits out of it. Now let us see the recipe for preparing the colorful and tasty traditional Indian halwa sweet made using carrots.

Ingredients

• 4 carrots
• 5 tablespoons sugar
• 400 ml milk
• 1/2 tablespoon cardamom powder
• 3 almonds which are chopped

Procedure

• First wash the carrots properly.
• Now grate the washed carrots.
• Add milk and grated carrots mixture into the pan and cook well for 40 minutes until the milk dries and carrots are cooked well.
• After 40 minutes, add sugar to it and cook for 5 minutes until the mixture dries up.
• Add the cardamom powder and stir well.
• Now off the stove, place the mixture in a bowl and garnish it with almonds.
• Yummy carrot halwa is now ready to serve.

This halwa can be prepared in not more than 45 minutes and it tastes great. No doubt it attracts the children and they will definitely like this recipe. Now hope rather than forcing the children to eat carrots, parents can cook this delicious sweet as it provides the same benefits of that of carrot which the children eat happily and enjoy this recipe.