Bottle gourd halwa/ Lauki ka Halwa is a dessert, made with bottle gourd, milk, Kova, sugar. It is an easy recipe to make. Also while we selecting the bottle gourd, it is essential to choose non-mature one (tender) that makes the halwa delicious. we are not going to use the inner part of bottle gourd, so that inner portion separately can be used for making bottle gourd juice

Let us see how to make Bottle gourd Halwa/ Lauki ka Halwa.

Bottle gourd Halwa

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Prep Time 10

Cook Time 30

Total Time 40

Course Dessert

Cuisine Indian

Servings 4

Ingredients

¼ cup ghee
1 tbsp cashews
1 tbsp pistachio
1 tbsp raisins
2½ cup shredded bottle gourd
½ cup milk
1 cup Kova
½+1 cup+tbsp sugar
¼ tsp cardamom powder

Instructions

For peeling and shredding the bottle gourd

Wash the bottle gourd, wipe off, peel out the skin
cut into pieces, shred the out part only using a shredder

For making Halwa

Heat ¼ cup of ghee in a pan
Put the cashews and pistachios, fry it, once it is half done add raisins
Take off the nuts and raisins, keep aside
In the same pan with remaining ghee, add shredded bottle gourd, saute it for 7 minutes in medium flame
Pour ½ cup of milk and mix well, boil it for 7 minutes till milk shrinks
Add 1 cup of Kova, and mix well
now add sugar (1/2 cup+1tbsp), mix well
Keep stirring till it reaches the halwa consistency in medium flame
At one stage, bottle gourd won't stick on the pan, gathers as mass, it will take 12 minutes, after adding sugar
Now add ¼ tsp of cardamom powder, mix well
finally, add the nuts and raisins sauteed in ghee, Halwa is ready