Carrot Payasam:

Ingredients:

Carrots 4-6
Almonds 25
Poppy seeds 2-3 spoons
Whole milk 4 cups
Condensed milk 1 cup
Cardamom seeds powder 1 spoon
Sugar 1 cup

To Garnish:

Ghee/buttur 1 cup
Fried cashewnuts
Fried raisins
or
Pumpkin seeds.

Method:

Chop 4 carrots and grate 2 carrots…..set them aside.

Slice 10 almonds lenth wise. Soak other 15 almonds in hot water….maybe for few minutes and remove its skin.

Soak poppy seeds in hot water.

Now cook chopped carrots in limited water. When it is tender….drain the water.

Now add skin removed almonds to this carrots and also the poppy seeds. Wet grind these into thick paste….maybe using milk while grinding. Set this paste aside.

In deep pan….add few spoons of ghee. Add cardamom and sugar to this. Add 1/2 cup of water…..let the sugar come up to syrup stage.

Then add carrot paste to this. Further add whole milk plus condensed milk. Let it boil……continuously over medium heat without cover.

In a seperate pan….heat ghee. Fry grated carrot till golden color and set aside. In the same ghee, fry sliced almonds and set it aside too.

Now….when payasam is ready. Garnish with fried carrots, fried cashewnuts,raisins or pumpkin seeds.

Serve chilled.