Lauki kheer /Bottle gourd dessert

Name: Lauki kheer /Bottle gourd dessert
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup grated lauki/bottlegourd; 500 ml whole milk; 4-5 tbsp sugar; 4 tbsp powder milk/condensed milk; 8-10 chopped cashewnuts; 1 tbsp raisins; 2 green cardamoms crushed; 1 tsp cornflour; 1 tbsp ghee; 1 tsp rose water

Kumkum Chatterjee @cook_12055532

#navratri2019
Lauki kheer or bottle gourd dessert is a sweet pudding and very easy to make.Adding chopped dry fruits and rose water makes it all the more delicious and nutritious.Lauki kheer can be served chilled as a dessert on special occasions and also enjoyed on fasting days of Navratri and other auspicious occasions.

Kumkum Chatterjee @cook_12055532

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Ingredients

1 cupgrated lauki/bottlegourd
500 mlwhole milk
4-5 tbspsugar
4 tbsppowder milk/condensed milk
8-10chopped cashewnuts
1 tbspraisins
2green cardamoms crushed
1 tspcornflour
1 tbspghee
1 tsprose water

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Steps

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Boil milk and cook on low flame till reduced to half.Meanwhile peel and grate lauki with a grater.Heat 1 tbsp ghee in a wok and toss the grated lauki till the moisture dries up.Add 1 tbsp sugar and toss.Add the lauki to the kheer and add sugar.Dilute powder milk and add to the boiling milk.If using condensed milk,adjust sugar.Add chopped nuts.Make a slurry of 1 tsp cornflour and add to milk.Give it a boil.Sprinkle crushed cardamom and rose water.Cool and add raisins.Serve chilled.