How to Make Lauki Ka Halwa Recipe

How to Make Lauki Halwa
 

Ingredients:

• Bottle Gourd: 1/2 kg
• Milk: 1 kg
• Ghee: 1 cup
• Green Cardamom: 2 to 3 pcs (grind its seeds)
• Sugar: 1 cup
• Green Food Coloring: 1 pinch
• Almonds/Pistachios: as much you like
• Khoya: 1 cup

Method:

1. Peel off bottle gourds and grate using a food grater.
    
2. Heat ghee in frying or karahi pan, add ground cardamom seeds, as it begins to give aroma, add grated bottle gourd
   and cook for 5 minutes.
    
3. Once bottle gourd becomes soft, add milk and keep stirring the spoon.
    
4. And then add green food color.
    
5. Once milk is cooked and finished, add sugar and cook until sugar water dries out.
    
6. Cook bottle gourd until oil appears.
    
7. Now add khoya and chopped almonds and cook at low heat for 10 minutes.
    
8. A tasteful lauki ka halwa is ready. Garnish with almonds, pistachios and silver paper and serve.
    

NOTE:
Immediately cook bottle gourd after grating otherwise it will become darker. Bottle gourd contains iron and if you
have to store it grated, keep in cold water. Strain when you need to cook.