Bottle Gourd Halwa Cake

Name: Bottle Gourd Halwa Cake
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 kg bottle gourd; 1/4 cup ghee; 5 cashew,chopped; 5 almond, chopped; 2 tbsp pistachios, chopped; 1 cup milk; 250 gms Mava (Khoya; 1 cup sugar; 1/4 tsp cardamom powder; 5 drops Green colour; For Decoration; As required Roasted Dry Nuts

Smruti Rana @smrutiskitchen

Vadodra

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Bottle Gourd Halwa is one such common dessert recipe prepared with 2 purpose. obliviously it is a classic dessert for any festival, but also high in nutrition and fiber and hence ideal for fasting.

Smruti Rana @smrutiskitchen

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Ingredients

1 kgbottle gourd
1/4 cupghee
5cashew,chopped
5almond, chopped
2 tbsppistachios, chopped
1 cupmilk
250 gmsMava (Khoya
1 cupsugar
1/4 tspcardamom powder
5 dropsGreen colour
For Decoration
As requiredRoasted Dry Nuts

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Steps

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Firstly, heat ghee and roast cashew, badam and pistachios.
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Roast the nuts to golden brown and keep aside. Now add in grated lauki and saute for 5 minutes. Add green colour and mix well
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Saute till the lauki shrinks slightly and changes colour. add in milk and mix well. cook for 10 minutes or till milk thickens and lauki gets cooked completely.
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Further add in sugar and mix well. sugar melts and boil for 5 minutes or till it thickens. add in khoya into lauki mixture and mix well. keep stirring till the mixture thickens and forms a mass.
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Add in roasted nuts and cardamom powder. mix well.
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Finally, transfer lauki halwa to a mould and keep in a freeze for set. After 2 hours demold cake and decoration with dry nuts.
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