Carrot Roses are made of small orange carrots. This dessert is entirely my innovation. I was looking at making something else with carrots, milk, and sugar other than carrot halwa/barfi. So I came up with this recipe. The carrot slices are cooked in sugar syrup and rolled with milk solids and sugar to look like a rose. They are super delicious and a treat to the eye. They can also make a healthy option to replace sugar flowers to decorate a cake.
Ingredients
- Carrot – 3-4 numbers
- Sugar – 1 cup + ½ cup
- Khoya – 1 cup (see mise en place section to prepare at home)
- Cardamom powder
Serve – 12 pieces
Process
Step 1 – Cooking Carrot Stripes
- Wash and peel the carrots and remove the top stem portions
- Cut the carrot into two from the middle lengthwise
- Using a peeler, make long thin slices of the carrot along the length
- Put 1 cup sugar in the pan and add ½ cup water to it
- Boil till sugar dissolve
- Add cardamom powder to the sugar syrup (optional)
- Now put the carrot stripes in this sugar mixture and keep cooking till the carrot stripes are tender; it may take 15 – 20 mins
- Once the carrots stripes are cooked, take out the stripes one by one and put them on a wire rack to drain the excess sugar syrup
Step 2 – Preparing the sugar and khoya mixture
- In another pan, take 1 cup khoya and ¼ cup sugar
- Cook till sugar dissolve and the khoya sugar mixture is of pouring consistency
Step 3 – Making the roses
- In a tray, spread out the carrot stripes
- Now with the help of a small spoon or piping bag, spread a thin layer of the khoya sugar mixture on each stripe
- Now pick up the stripes carefully and roll them up in the shape of a rose
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