Roasted Carrot Soup Recipe | Soup Recipes

        Carrot soup Recipe a simple soup made with carrot, potatoes. Soups is a winter friendly food or for any season If you suffer from cold.During December to February on those cloudy, drowsy nights I feel like grabbing one bowl of this warm soup after I get comfortable under my comforter.

Carrot Halwa Recipe | Gajar Halwa | Indian Sweet Recipes

     Carrot Halwa or Gajar Halwa a quick Indian dessert .Carrot is called "gajar" in Hindi that's why this halwa is called gajar ka halwa.Halwa is one of the quickest sweet that doesn't require any fancy ingredients.Like this carrot halwa ,made with milk,sugar and carrots as the main ingredients.

Carrot Curry | Chettinad Food

     Carrot Curry-a mild comforting curry with fresh carrots and toor dal along with some tempering.Commonly called "tuvatal" served along with rasam or sambar rice in chettinad.
       In chettinad varieties of veggies are served .Pachadi-tangy curry(with toor dal and with veggies like lady's finger,raw mango),Kootu-mild curry ( made with veggies like choyote,snake gaurd,cabbageand spiced with green chilies),Tuvatal-stir fry (with or without coconut also with or without toor dal made from veggies like carrot,snake guard,green leafy veggies),Masiyal-mild curry (from veggies like spinach but when made with yam it has tamarind pulp).Kola(dry blend of fresh veggies, dal and spices).Piratal-Mixed spiced veggies(steamed veggies cooked in ground coconut ,spice paste or simply with spice paste).Varuval-dry curry(shallow roast of spiced veggies) there is still more ,but with this intro i would like to go for the recipe of carrot curry straight away.
   

Carrot Rice|Guest Post

      This is a guest post for my sweet friend Rafee who blogs at Sweettoothraf ,the name itself could tell you what she blogs about?Well if not she has a sweet tooth and she has many wonderful cakes and sweets which I like most. She also has many kerela meat recipes and simple snack recipes as well.I am looking forward trying her rose cake very soon.Recently she moved her blog to her own domain. Visit her site to find more about rafee the wonderful mom,cook and blogger.
    For a busy person like her I made a simple lunchbox recipe.This carrot rice may help her in busy schedule. Hope she liked this recipe as much you all do.

Carrot chutney/Easy chutney recipes

This is a spin on the popular red chili chili and tomato chutney.This is healthy ard very easy to make. Also this is an easy to way get veggies in to your kids diet. Getting little ones to geat veggies is not an easy task, trust me I know. When were kids my mom used to make this and beetroot chutney often and she still does.

Preparation time:10 min
Cooking time:10 min
Serves:2-3

Ingredients:

• 2 onions.
• 1 small tomato.
• 1 carrot grated.
• 2 red chilies.
• Oil for tempering.
• Salt as required.

For tempering:

• 1/2 tsp Mustard seeds.
• 1/2 tsp Urad dal.

Method:

• Cut onions and tomato into 1 inch pieces.
• Heat the sauce pan and add oil to it .
• Add mustard seeds and let it splutter.
• Add urad dal and wait until changes color.
• Add onions,red chilies and saute them until onions are translucent .

• Add tomato and saute until tomatos turn soft and get cooked through.
• Add the grated carrot and saute it for 3 -4 min .
• Cool it and grind it with required salt.

• You can use this as a dip for dosa,idly and finger foods.

Note:

• Carrot is sweet so you want to adjust the chilies according to it.

Check other chutney recipes like Coconut chutney,MintCoriander chuntey

Carrot and Apple Halwa

This past week my daughter went apple picking with her school mates. She brought home 10 apples. Half of them were rotten and she was kinda sad. To cheer her up I made Carrot and Apple Halwa. She loves desserts and she was so happy that I made this for her. I saw this in kamala's recipes.I tweaked little and Here is the product.

Preparation Time: 5 min
Cooking time: 40 min
Serves: 3