Name: Lauki ki gilauri recipe by Dipti Mehrotra at BetterButter
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: Lauki or.bottle guard- 1/2 kg; Sugar- 250 gm; Khoya- 1/2 cup; Powdered sugar - 1/4 cup; Greated coconut- 1/2 cup; A few saffron stand; Gulkand- 1 table spoon; Cardmom powder- 1 tsp; Some chopped pistachios and few cloves

Ingredients Serving: 6

Lauki or.bottle guard- 1/2 kg
Sugar- 250 gm
Khoya- 1/2 cup
Powdered sugar - 1/4 cup
Greated coconut- 1/2 cup
A few saffron stand
Gulkand- 1 table spoon
Cardmom powder- 1 tsp
Some chopped pistachios and few cloves

Instructions

For filling:-
In a pan take khoya and powdered sugar. Put this mixture over low heat flame and cook for stirring consistency. It will become grainy.
When the mixture become creamy add saffron stand. Gulkund and pistachios. Keep aside for cooling.
For wrapping:-
Paal the lauki and remove the seeds. Cut it into 4'X4' slices. Prick well with a folk and soak thease slices into water.
In a pan boil the water and cook these slices for 4-5 minutes or till it change the colour. Drain the water.
In pan take sugar and 1 table spoon water and make sugar syrup. Add slices into it. Heat the pan on low heat and let the sugar dissolves completely. Keep it aside for 10 minutes.
After 10 minutes When slices get mixed with sugar syrup remove it from syrup before getting dry. Now it is ready for filling and wrapping.
Take the filling into equal parts. Take one portion of the filling on a lauki slice.fold it along the sides to form a triangle and stud it with a cloves. Now lauki ki gilauri is ready . Garnish with silver foil and serve chilled.

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