Health benefits of Carrot

Carrots

• Carrots are an excellent source of antioxidant compounds, and the richest vegetable source of the pro-vitamin A carotenes. Carrots' antioxidant compounds help protect against cardiovascular disease and cancer and also promote good vision, especially night vision.
• Intake of foods such as carrots that are rich in carotenoids may be beneficial to blood sugar regulation.
• If you or someone you love is a smoker, or if you are frequently exposed to secondhand smoke, then making vitamin A-rich foods, such as carrots, part of your healthy way of eating may save your life.

Carrot Chutney not sweet,spicy...!!

Hi!As we all know carrots are excellent source of antioxidant compounds that helps to protect against cardiovascular disease(heart disease) and promotes good vision.It is the richest vegetable source of vitamin A and many more.when we think of carrot we always remember sweetness of it.so we cannot have our carrot in everyday recipes.As we always prefer to have spicy.I hope this is one of the  recipe that can add to your everyday recipes.(good with dosas).

Ingredients
carrot slices - 1cup
onion slices - 1cup
green chillies - 4 or 5(according to your taste)
dhaniya - 1spoon

cumin seeds - 1spoon

garlic - 1 pod

tamarind

salt

For tempering

curry leaves

mustard seeds

bengal gram

Procedure

1. Take a pan add 2 spoons oil after heating add garlic pods,green chillies.saute them for a minute and then add dhaniya(corrainder seeds),cumin seeds,1cup sliced carrot,1cup sliced onion,tamarind very little and salt.fry them till they are half cooked,don't overcook.

2. switch of the stove and let it cool.

3. After cooling blend the mixture finely but not adding any water.

4. Finally tempering, add 2 spoons of oil in  a pan after heating add bengal gram,urad dal,mustard seeds and curry leaves.Add the tempering to the grinded paste.

your carrot chutney is ready to serve with any kind of dosas..

This is an entry for the event "Roti pachadi/Chutney" conducting by Sravani