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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.

Carrot special sweet-Carrot Kheer:
Carrot Kheer is the famous Indian sweet recipe which tastes great. The recipe for making this sweet is as follows.

Ingredients needed are as follows:

• 8 carrots
• 4 cups milk
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons ghee
• 10 cashews
• 1 pinch crushed cardamom
• 1 1/2 tablespoon raisins
• 1/2 tablespoon vanilla essence

Procedure to prepare the Carrot Kheer includes the following steps.

• Add the sugar to the milk and boil the milk till the sugar melts completely.
• Now boil the chopped carrots in water till the carrot pieces become soft.
• Then drain the water and make the paste of the cooked carrot pieces by grinding in a grinder.
• Add the carrot paste to the above boiled milk and stir well. Boil it for 2 minutes and off the stove.
• Fry the cashews in a pan containing ghee till light brown. Now add raisins and cardamom to it.
• Add the above mixture to the above milk in which carrot is mixed and stir well.
• Yummy Indian carrot special sweet-Carrot Kheer is now ready to serve. Serve it by cooling it for sometime. If you wish you can also keep it in fridge for sometime and later serve it chill which also tastes great.

Apple Halwa is prepared using the following ingredients.

• 2 apples
• 1/2 tablespoon maida
• 1/2 cup wheat flour
• 1 cup milk
• 1 tablespoon ghee
• Cashews for garnishing
• Almonds for garnishing

Follow the below procedure to cook the delicious sweet, Apple Halwa.

• Take the apples and peel them.
• Cut them into small pieces.
• Add the apple pieces to the milk and boil them until it becomes thick.
• Now add ghee and maida to it and cook for few minutes to form a thick mixture.
• Till then fry wheat flour in a pan containing ghee.
• Add fried wheat flour in the above apple mixture and stir well.
• Garnish it with cashews and almonds.
• Yummy sweet, Apple Halwa is now ready to eat.

Apple Halwa prepared using apple, is a sweet recipe rich in vitamins and low in fat and so eating this sweet doesn’t create any health problems like diabetes but helps a lot to control and prevent them. Try out this recipe in your home as it doesn’t require much time to prepare and also provides healthy benefits.

Every one of us likes sweets of which Semolina Milk sweet is one among them and is a delicious South Indian special variety. Now let’s know the recipe of preparing this sweet. The ingredients required to prepare this recipe includes the following.

• 1 1/2 cup semolina
• 1 3/4 cup milk
• 1 1/2 cup sugar
• 6 tablespoons ghee
• 2 tablespoons chopped nuts
• 1 tablespoon of cardamom powder

Procedure to prepare semolina milk sweet:

• Fry the semolina in a pan containing the ghee on a low heat.
• Now add milk and sugar to the pan containing the semolina when the ghee gets separated.
• Cook the above mixture till it becomes thick.
• Add nuts to the mixture and off the stove.
• Cool the mixture for 5 minutes and add cardamom powder to it.
• Now make small balls of the above mixture by which Semolina Milk sweet is ready to serve.
• You can also add desiccated coconut to the mixture which also tastes great.

Banana, a healthy fruit is eaten as it is by us. But most of the children hesitate to eat it as they don’t like it. But parents force them to eat bananas as it is very good to health and helps to maintain ideal weight. Instead of forcing them, it’s better to prepare a tasty recipe using bananas as primary ingredient so that children may like and eat them by which indirectly they get the great benefits of bananas. Try out this delicious and yummy banana sweet recipe which will be liked by all of us including children.

The ingredients required are as follows:

• 1 fresh ripened banana
• 3/4 cup all purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons of butter
• 1/2 cup sugar powder
• Oil
• Water

Preparation steps include:

• Add butter, sugar and water to all purpose flour and mix well to form smooth dough.
• Peel the skin of banana and cut into small and thin slices.
• Make small balls using the dough. Flatten it and place a slice of banana in it and close properly.
• Heat the pan containing the oil. Deep fry the above banana balls till they become brown.
• Place them on the tissue so that extra oil can be absorbed.
• Serve this banana sweet while it is hot so that it tastes great.

Want to taste the delicious sweet? Then try out the following recipe of Sandesh sweet.

Ingredients

• 225g of cheese
• 150g of sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon rose water
• 1/2 teaspoon of cardamom powder
• 10 cashew nuts

Preparation steps

• Take a bowl and add cheese and sugar.
• Mix it well and keep it on the stove.
• When it gets sticky, add rose water and off the stove.
• Then again stir it for two minutes.
• Now, take this mixture and make into balls.
• Keep each cashew nut on each ball and serve the delicious Sandesh sweet.

Nutritional values

• Energy-1500cal
• Proteins-58g
• Carbohydrates-165g
• Fat-64g