Ashgourd halwa

Name: Ashgourd halwa
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup ashgourd; 6 spoons sugar; 1 tbsp homemade cream; 2 small eliachi/Cardamom; as needed almonds and pistachios to sprinkle; 1 tbsp ghee

Supriya Shenoy @Minoshkaa2021

Mumbai, India

Ashgourd halwa

Supriya Shenoy @Minoshkaa2021

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Ingredients

30 minutes

2 servings

1 cupashgourd
6 spoonssugar
1 tbsphomemade cream
2small eliachi/Cardamom
as neededalmonds and pistachios to sprinkle
1 tbsp ghee

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Steps

30 minutes

1

Wash the ashgourd. Remove the peel and the seeds. Then grate it.
2

Take a kadai and heat it. To this hot kadai add ghee.
3

Let the ghee heat. To it add small illaichi. Remove the cover of illaichi and pound it.
4

When it splutters add the grated ashgourd and stir it with spoon
5

Stir it continous, for about 5 minutes you will see it getting translucent. To this add the homemade cream and stir again for 5 minutes or so.
6

When you see both ashgourd cooking nicely with the ghee. You will sense a fragrance. That means it is cooking well.
7

Now add the sugar to the ashgourd halwa. Stir it continous again for 5 minutes.
8

Your gas should be on low heat for all this. Meanwhile take a cover and place it over your kadai. In 2 to 3 minutes you will see vapours. Remove the cover.
9

And stir your ashgourd halwa again for 2 to 3 minutes
10

Switch off the gas and remove the halwa. Decorate it with dryfruit.

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Supriya Shenoy @Minoshkaa2021

on December 01, 2020 06:22

Mumbai, India

My love for cooking has developed rather late. Functional cooking was comfortable but slowly after my children have grown up and started becoming foodies and my hubby too and especially during this lockdown have started cooking and enjoying the process too.