Name: Bottlegourd Halwa (Ghiya ka Halwa) recipe by Arti Gupta at BetterButter
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 250 gms - bottlegourd; 250 gms - milk; 2 tbsp - melted ghee; 1 tbsp - khoya/mawa; 50 gms - sugar; Pinch of Cardamom powder; 8 - 10 Cashewnuts; 8 - 10 almonds; Raisins and pistachios; Melon seeds or Pinenuts (optional)

ABOUT Bottlegourd Halwa (Ghiya ka Halwa) RECIPE

Bottlegourd is among few of those veggies that is used to prepare sweets and desserts and here Halwa. Its beautiful green colour highlights its nutritional content

Ingredients Serving: 2

250 gms - bottlegourd
250 gms - milk
2 tbsp - melted ghee
1 tbsp - khoya/mawa
50 gms - sugar
Pinch of Cardamom powder
8 - 10 Cashewnuts
8 - 10 almonds
Raisins and pistachios
Melon seeds or Pinenuts (optional)

Instructions

Heat ghee in a heavy bottomed vessel.
Add the dry fruits, cashew nuts, almonds and others and fry them.
Take out and keep aside.
In the same vessel add ghee, add washed, peeled and grated Bottlegourd (ghiya).
You can squeeze out the water of ghiya after grating it. Though I haven’t.
Saute the grated bottle gourd in ghee for a few minutes and add Milk.
Keep stirring on a low flame. When it has almost dried, add khoya, sugar and cardamom powder and half of the nuts that we had fried.
Continue stirring till it completely dries up and ghee would float and the aroma of prepared halwa will refresh the air.
Garnish with the rest of nuts and serve hot or chilled as you prefer.

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