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Bottle gourd Halwa

cuminpeppers
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine Indian
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

  • ¼ cup ghee
  • 1 tbsp cashews
  • 1 tbsp pistachio
  • 1 tbsp raisins
  • 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
Keyword Bottlegourd halwa, Lauki ka halwa