Bottle gourd contains less in calories with no fat. It also contains essential vitamins and minerals like Vitamin C Vitamin B, Vitamin Ke, Vitamin A, Vitamin E, Iron, Folate, Potassium, and Manganese. It is one of the best things about summer. Have it as juice, in a sabzi or in soup, you will wrap benefits galore from this water-rich vegetable. I often make lauki chanadaal curry, lauki capsicum sabzi. This time I made Lauki Halwa and it turned out delicious.

Bottle ground or Lauki Halwa is a vegetable dessert. It is simple and delicious dessert recipe prepared from grated lauki, milk, sugar and fresh malai (cream). Roasted fennel seeds and cardamom give a refreshing flavor to the Halwa.