Healthy Desserts

I have always had a major sweet tooth. As I hit 30 this year, I have been thinking over my eating habits. Also I had to make sure that my toddlers who are 1.5 and 2.5 years old are eating healthy too. I am not an expert but I go by a simple rule, Every meal should have good amount of 3 magic elements: carbs, fats and proteins. Ideally they should be in certain ratio which I haven't been considering yet. Even if I am making a dessert, I try to balance all the 3 magic elements in them.

Here are 3 desserts that I think are super healthy and babies above 6 months will also devour it.

1. Carrot Fox Nut Pudding (Gajar Makhana Kheer)

Time: 10 mins
Serving: 3 
Ingredients:
  1. Carrot: 1 shredded
  2. Milk: 3 cups
  3. Ghee: 1 tablespoon
  4. Oats Powder: 1teaspoon (Optional)
  5. Jaggery: 2 tablespoon
  6. Kesar, Elaichi (Optional)
  7. Roasted Fox Nut: 6-7 pieces (crush them)
Steps:
  1. Roast shredded carrot in ghee until you smell carrots.
  2. Add milk to carrots
  3. Let it boil and add oats powder. let the mixture simmer until it reduces a little
  4. Add jaggery once it melts add the crushed roasted makhanas to it.
  5. You can add depth of flavors to the kheer by adding elaichi and kesar at this time
It tastes so good, now that I have tasted it, I am planning to ditch rice kheer for a while. From where I understand it has vegetable, milk and a superfood Fox Nut which matches my requirement of carbs, protein and fats. And hey, its a one pot breakfast. I can serve this as a complete breakfast to my kids or as a side for lunch and dinner.

2. Dates and Nuts laddu

Time: 10 mins
Ingredients:
  1. Dates: 7-8 deseeded
  2. crushed or powdered nuts: walnuts, almonds, cashew, Pista
  3. Any dried fruits like resins, figs, apricots
  4. Ghee: half teaspoon
Steps:
  1. Roast all the dry fruits and powder them or crush them to chunks 
  2. Roast the dates a little so that it loosen up and grind it in mixer
  3. Mix all the dry fruits and dates paste and make laddus out of it
It is super delicious and our go to snack.

3. Jaggery Rasgulla

Time: 25-30 mins
Serving: 6-7 pieces
Ingredients:
  1. milk : 500 ml
  2. jaggery: 250 grams
  3. water
  4. Vinegar/Lemon Juice: 1 teaspoon 
Steps:
  1. Making Paneer: Let the milk boil and turn off the stove and add vinegar or lemon juice and stir continously when until whey separates  from the paneer. Wash the paneer and strain it using cheese cloth.
  2.  Let the water drip for 15-20 minutes
  3.  In pressure cooker let the jaggery melt in water
  4.  Mash the paneer with palms and make no crack balls out of it.
  5.  Once the jaggery water comes to rolling boil add the paneer balls to it
  6.  Take 1 whistle of pressure cooker on high flame and keep on medium for 5 minutes
  7. Let it cool and enjoy or refrigerate
Being vegetarian I swear by paneer for my protein intake. 

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