Sabudana & carrot Kheer

I'm sorry the pic is too bright. You can only see the nuts & raisins.

Sabudana 1 cup

carrots grated 1 cup 

milk 500 ml

sugar 3-4 tbsp

In a pressure cooker, you can cook sabudana & carrots for 2 whistles, in case you want to save time, or you can cook in gas, which is troublesome, as you've to keep watching & stirring it all the time. I pressure cooked mine, then added milk, boiled well for some time, then added sugar to taste, boiled till sugar dissolved. removed, garnishes with nuts & raisins by frying in wee bit of ghee.

ps= there is no hard & fast rule for the amount of sabudana or carrots that you want to add, it depends on how thick you want, the quantity that you want etc.

ps- for variation, you may add some dates along with carrots when you cook, then you'll need even less sugar. for diabetic patients, remove once the milk has thickened, then add sugar free substitute, as I did for my hubby. 

Pumpkin mousse

Ingredients to make custard

Milk      200 ml

Sugar     50 gm

Custard pdr  2 tbsp mixed with little water

Make custard by boiling milk with sugar, then add custard pdr, mixed well with water, keep           stirring till it thickens, keep aside to cool.

For the pumpkin mousse

Pumpkin puree 1 cup , this is done by roasting pumpkin lightly in a grill, then cool it & puree.

Cream 2 tbsp

Sugar 50 gm

Cinnamon pdr ¼ tsp

Nutmeg pdr ¼ tsp

Dry ginger pdr ½ tsp

All spice pdr ½ tsp

Mix all these well, add the custard & keep in the fridge till it sets about an hour.

To serve, put it in a piping bag, then pipe in a nice serving glass/ bowl in curves, sprinkle some cinnamon pdr, nuts on top & serve.

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