Lauki ka Halwa

Name: Lauki ka Halwa
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 kg bottle gourd; 200 ml homemade condensed milk; 10-12 cashews; 1 cup sugar; 1/2 tsp cardamom powder; 5-7 Safforn strands; 1 tbsp ghee; 1-2 drops green food colour (optional)

Rakhee Rathi @rakhee_21

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Ingredients

1 kgbottle gourd
200 mlhomemade condensed milk
10-12cashews
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp cardamom powder
5-7Safforn strands
1 tbspghee
1-2 dropsgreen food colour (optional)

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Steps

1

Peel bottle gourd taste a small piece. If it is not bitter use it for making halwa.
2

Grate bottle gourd.
3

Squeeze it tightly and remove it's water.
4

Heat ghee in kadhai fry cashew slices and remove it from ghee.
5

Add grated bottle gourd in same ghee and stir it for 5-7 minutes. Add condensed milk in it and cook it. Stir in between.
6

Cook for 25-30 minutes on low flame. When milk fully absorb and ghee releasing from sides add sugar and cardamom powder.
7

Cook it for more 10 minutes. Add green colour.And fried chicken cashews and in it. Cook it for more 3- 5 minutes.
8

Turn off the flame. Serve it hot.
9

Super delicious halwa. You can eat this in fast also.