Learn a step-by-step guide to making a gajar halwa toddler recipe, a delicious and nutritious Indian dessert suitable for toddlers. The use of fresh and healthy ingredients such as grated carrots, ghee powdered nuts, milk, and sweeteners makes the recipe perfect for growing toddlers.
Ingredients
Red carrots: Carrots are rich in antioxidants and lycopene (which gives red color), protecting cells from free radicals. Red carrots are sweeter and available only during winter. Vitamin A from carrots is essential for healthy eyes.
Powdered nuts: Almonds, cashews, and pistachios, are powdered to avoid choking hazards.
Milk: Whole milk is a good source of protein and calcium helps with healthy bones and teeth.
Sweeter: Any kind of sweetener like jaggery, date paste, or coconut sugar can be added. Adding sugar is a personal preference.
How to make gajar halwa toddler recipe
To make gajar halwa, grate fresh carrots and soak them in water for 10 minutes. Drain the water, Peel the skin, grate them finely, or use the food processor.
Add ghee, grated carrots, nut powder, milk, sugar, and cardamom powder in a pressure cooker, and close the lid.
Cook for 5 whistles, turn off the stove, and release pressure after 5 minutes.
If you notice milk, cook until the milk evaporates and the mixture thickens. Serve hot or cold.
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Gajar halwa toddler recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 115 grams Red carrots 1 cup
- 3/4 cup Whole milk
- 1/4 tsp Cardamom powder
- 2 each Almonds, cashews, pistachios Under 2 add Nut powder
- 1 tbsp Brown sugar Date paste or Jaggery powder
- 2 tbsp Ghee
Instructions
HOW TO MAKE GAJAR HALWA TOODLER RECIPE
- To make gajar halwa, grate fresh carrots and soak them in water for 10 minutes. Drain the water, Peel the skin, grate them finely, or use the food processor.
- In a pressure cooker add ghee, grated red carrots, nut powder, milk, sugar, and cardamom powder, and close the lid.
- Cook for 5 whistles, turn off stove and release pressure after 5 minutes.
- If you notice milk, cook until the milk evaporates and the mixture thickens. Serve hot or cold.
