Easy & Healthy Carrot Cake Recipe - How to make carrot cake

Carrot cake is a delicious cake full of grated carrots, walnuts, cinnamon and choco chips.

Here, I have cooked a healthier version with no maida /all purpose flour. I have used vegetable oil instead of butter.

Ingredients

• wheat flour 2  cups
• brown Sugar(or white sugar) 1/2 tsp 
• baking powder 1.5 tsp
• salt 1/2 tsp
• cinnamon powder

• eggs 4 or 3
• vegetable Oil (or any flavourless oil)1 cup
• walnuts chopped 100g
• carrot grated 1/2 cup
• chocolate chips

Method

Mix all the dry ingredients - Flour,  baking powder, salt and cinnamon together.

Beat eggs well until frothy.

Add sugar little by little and beat till sugar dissolves.

Then slowly add 1 cup of oil and beat it well.

Fold in flour gently.

Then mix in grated carrot, chocolate chips and chopped walnuts.

Bake for 25-30 minutes at 180 degree C or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.

Carrot Ularthu / Carrot Stir Fry

Ingredients:

1. Carrot 6 No
2. Onion 1
3. Crushed red chillies - 2 dsp
4. Curry leaves - 1 strand
5. Oil
6. Salt


Method:

Cut the carrot into small cubes.
Cook them in pressure cooker (1 whistle), adding enough salt
Cut onions into small pieces
Fry the onions in a pan till golden brown.
Add the crushed red chillies and curry leaves.
After 1 min, add cooked carrot.
Cook until all water is evaporated.
Enjoy with rice or chapathy,

Carrot Pomegranate Juice

Ingredients:

Pomegranate 1
Carrot 2
Tomato 1/ tbsp of Lemon juice
Honey 1 tsp (optional)
Sugar - as per your taste

Method:

Peel pomegranate to extract the juicy beads.
Blend this in your mixie with some water for some time just right enough so that the seeds are not blended. Take special care of this step.
Keep this aside.
Blend all the remaining ingredients well and add it to the prepared pomegranate juice.
Serve chilled or at room temperature.

Carrot Beetroot Halwa

Ingredients:

1.Carrot  - 250g

2.Beetroot - 250g

3.Sugar - 200g

4.Milk - 3/4 lr

5.Ghee - 4 tbsp

6.Cashew - 10 or as required

7.Cardamom - 1/2 tsp

Method:

Wash carrots & beetroots well. Peel skin and grate them thin.

Add this to milk and sugar in a pan with continuous stirring.

Stir till all the milk has dried out ad halwa starts sticking to the pan.

Roast cashews in ghee add it along with the ghee to the halwa.

Stir well and transfer to the serving dish.

Eat either warm or cold.

This  is an excellent combo with Vanilla Icecream. Again you can give this to your sweet tooths who hates to eat carrot/beetroot  otherwise.

Carrot Cashew Milk Shake

Ingredients

1.Carrot - 4
2.Milk - 500 ml
3.Sugar
4.Cashew nuts - 6

Preparation
Make a fine paste of cashew nuts and keep aside.
Cut carrot to small pieces and cook it using 1 cup milk and some water. 2/3 whistles in pressure cooker.
Boil the rest of the milk by the time and let everything cool.
Blend all well , adding cashew nuts as well.
Adjust the sugar and consistency according to your taste.
Serve cold.

Notes
Almonds can also be used for the milk shake, instead of cashew nuts.