The carrot is a root vegetable, usually orange in colour, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist. Kids love to eat sweet all the time, so here is a simple  Carrot Custard Healthy Kids Recipe. Which is easy to prepare and healthy also, and is also called as Carrot Pudding.

Carrot Custard:

Ingredients

• Carrots-4(grated)
• Milk-1/2 lt
• Cashew nuts-6
• Almonds-6
• Raisins-6
• Custard powder-3Tbsp
• Ghee-2Tbsp
• Sugar-6 Tsp

Method of Preparation: 

• In a kadai add ghee, and saute the grated carrots until they appear a little cooked and the raw flavour vanishes.
• Boil the 1/2 lt milk separately and add sugar to the boiling milk so it melts easily.
• In a separate glass of boiled cool milk mix custard thoroughly without any lumps.
• Add the custard mix milk to the boiling milk and stir continuously until it thickens a little for the desired consistency.
• Allow it to cool and add the grated carrots to it.
• Heat a little ghee add cashew nuts, raisins, almonds saute until brown and garnish the carrot custard.
• Refrigerate it and serve cool.
• An excellent dessert for the hot summers and children would relish it happily.

Nutritive Values:

ENERGY: 115 KCALS

PROTEIN: 5.93 GMS

VITAMIN A: 16706 IU

FAT: 3.5GMS

Nutritional Benefits:

• They are an exceptionally rich source of carotenes and vitamin-A. 100 g fresh carrot contains 8,285 µg of beta-carotene and 16,706 IU of vitamin-A. Studies have found that flavonoid compounds in carrots may offer to protect from skin, lung and oral cavity cancers.
• In the humans, carotenes convert into vitamin-A in the liver cells. Beta-carotene is the important carotene type present in these roots. Beta-carotene is one of the powerful natural antioxidants that protect the human body from harmful oxygen-derived free radicals.
• They are exceptionally rich in many B-complex groups of vitamins such as folic acid, vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine), thiamin, pantothenic acid.

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