Buttered Carrot Fingers Recipe (Finger Food For Babies Over 9 Months)
Total Time: 15 minutes
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients:
- salt
- cumin powder (jeera)
- carrot
- black pepper powder
- butter
Instructions:
- To begin making Buttered Carrot Fingers, dice the washed and peeled carrots into an inch wide and 4 inch long sticks
- Add these diced carrots to a pressure cooker along with a pinch of salt and with 2 tablespoons water
- Cover the pressure cooker and cook for one whistle
- After the first whistle, turn off the heat and remove the pressure immediately by running the pressure cooker under cold water
- This will prevent the carrots from getting overcooked
- Place a pan on low-medium flame, and add one teaspoon of unsalted butter
- Once the butter has melted, add the steamed carrots to the pan
- Saute for a couple of minutes until the butter has coated to the carrots
- Turn off the flame
- Sprinkle a small pinch of cumin powder or pepper powder on top of the carrots and optionally pinch of salt
- Serve these Buttered Carrot Fingers to your toddlers from 10 months onwards as finger foods/snack or even when travelling as they make for a perfect snack