Lauki halwa
Lauki halwa, from above
VegUttar Pradesh

Lauki halwa

Bottle gourd, milk and patience. The vegetable nobody asks for, turned into the sweet everybody wants.

50 minTime
5 gProtein each
mildSpice
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Make it your way

Grandma's wayLauki, full cream milk and khoa.
The original
266kcalsame
5 gproteinsame
1 gfibresame
50minutessame

Classic lauki halwa.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

6 servings
Bottle gourd (opo squash, calabash)1 medium, peeled, seeded and grated
Milk2 cups, full cream
Sugar½ cup plus 1 tbsp
Ghee3 tbsp
Khoa50 g, crumbled, optional
Cardamom¼ tsp
Cashewsa few, chopped
Pistachiosa few, chopped

Method

4 steps
  1. 1Cook the grated lauki in 2 tbsp ghee on medium, stirring, for 8 to 10 minutes.
  2. 2Pour in the milk and simmer, stirring often, until the milk is almost all absorbed.
  3. 3Add sugar and khoa and keep cooking until thick again.
  4. 4Fry cashews in the remaining ghee and stir in with cardamom and pistachios.
Serve it like this

Serve in small bowls, warm or chilled as it likes best, with a few chopped nuts on top.

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