Lauki ka Halwa

Name: Lauki ka Halwa
Total time: 3600 s
Yield: as required
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1/2 kg whole bottle gourd; to taste Sugar; 1/2 cup mawa; pinch Green food colour (optional); 1/2 cup milk; handful Dry fruits; as needed Ghee; 1/2 tsp cardamom powder

Sudeshna Rajib Das @cook_85882015

New Delhi

Lauki ka Halwa

Sudeshna Rajib Das @cook_85882015

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Ingredients

1 hour

as required

1/2 kg whole bottle gourd
to tasteSugar
1/2 cup mawa
pinchGreen food colour (optional)
1/2 cupmilk
handfulDry fruits
as neededGhee
1/2 tsp cardamom powder

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Steps

1 hour

1

Peel the skin of the bottle gourd and grate it leaving the middle part of the seeds.
2

Now take a pan, add a tsp of ghee and fry the dry fruits till golden brown. Keep them aside.
3

Now in the same pan, add 2 tsp ghee again and put the grated bottle gourd in it and fry it for about 2 to 3 mins till the water released from lauki gets absorbed.
4

Now add milk to it. Cook for about 5 mins, covering the pan. Now add a pinch of food colour if required. Cook it for 2 more mins.
5

Now add mawa, dry fruits, cardamom powder and sugar. Cover it & cook it more for a while till ghee starts releasing from the halwa..pour a tsp of ghee now and your halwa is now ready...