Lauki ka halwa

Name: Lauki ka halwa
Total time: 3600 s
Yield: 5 people
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 4 cups grated lauki; 4 cups ghee; 4-5 cardamoms and cinnamon sticks; 2 glass milk; 100 gm mawa; 2 1/2 cups sugar; as required Grated nuts and rasins

Afsana Ahmed @afsana_12345678

Lauki halwa is a sweet Indian dessert made with bottle gourd or opo squash, milk, ghee, sugar and flavored with cardamom and nuts. This is a well known variant of halwa made with a vegetable. You can easily make this halwa variant as a sweet dish on any day or during religious fasting days like Navratri fast ,Ekadashi, ramadan
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Afsana Ahmed @afsana_12345678

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Ingredients

1hr

5 people

4 cupsgrated lauki
4 cupsghee
4-5cardamoms and cinnamon sticks
2 glassmilk
100 gmmawa
2 1/2 cupssugar
as required Grated nuts and rasins

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Steps

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1

Firstly rinse, peel and grate the lauki. Before grating taste the lauki. If it tastes sour or bitter then discard and do not cook it.
Heat ghee in a heavy pan or kadai on medium-low to medium flame. Use a large kadai so that milk does not spill outside.
Add 5 to 6 green cardamoms & cinnamon sticks – powdered or crushed or ½ to 1 tesp
Add the grated lauki. Mix grated lauki very well with the ghee.
2

On a low to medium-low flame begin to saute the lauki. Stir often when sauteing lauki.
Saute lauki till the moisture dries. Then add whole milk and mix very well.
3

The milk will start boiling. At this step be attentive and keep on stirring, so that the milk does not spill from the pan.
Add mawa and sugar. Mix very well. You can even add 2 to 3 teaspoons of rose water or kewra water (pandanus water) if you want at this step.
4

The halwa will gradually thicken and you will see some ghee being released from the sides. There should not be any liquid in the dudhi halwa.
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Then switch off the heat and add golden raisins. Adding raisins is optional. Mix very well.
Garnish with some chopped nuts and serve lauki halwa hot or warm. Refrigerate remaining halwa. It stays good for a couple of days in the refrigerator.